Posted on 08/09/2005 3:56:49 PM PDT by texianyankee
SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing online battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said. Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play online games on Aug. 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said. "We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone. Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily JoongAng Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe. After he failed to return home, Lee's mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported. He died a few minutes later, it said. South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, has a large and highly developed game industry.
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That really narrows it down.
What. . . .no multiple lives?
Surely there are more pleasant ways to die.
Something about MMORPGs or maybe just multiplayer games in general that seems to click in that society.
LMAO!
You'd think you'd get at least a couple of free lives after all that?
Koreans *really* love their games..
They can also tend to ruin them for everyone else too, but now they usually have their own servers typically.
I dunno why they get so intense with it.
Was it "World of Warcraft"?
I played 50 hours of computer games once. It took me 2 months to do it.
If I was rude I might say they are this intense, get into alternate worlds because they live in Korea, are Korean, eat rotten cabbage and with no hope of anything else. . .but that would be mean so I won't say it.
His first name was Late. Late Lee.
It would have narrowed it down even more if his name was "Park."
My thought exactly.
Obsessive Lee
Exhausted Lee
Dead Lee
sorry, in korean it's translated Rate Ree.
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I quit smoking last week, now I hear this?
What's next, Coffee? OMG, LIVING IS FATAL!
A 28 year old computer game geek who lived with his mother.
Rome: Total War anyone?
These Koreans are some thing...
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