South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths

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Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 12, 2010 @05:55PM from the probably-just-making-more-time-for-starcraft dept.

eldavojohn writes "GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list."

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Re:Registration Numbers? (Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday April 12, 2010 @06:06PM (#31823352)

It refers to the Korean residency registration number which all Korean citizens have. It's practically a requirement to sign up for any online site in Korea. It also has the handy effect of blocking any foreigner registration numbers from ever signing up for Korean services.

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Re:Stupid (Score:4, Informative)

by compro01 ( 777531 ) writes: on Monday April 12, 2010 @06:22PM (#31823612)

IIRC, registering for those online games in Korea requires your nation ID #, so that won't work.

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