 URL broadband s killer application the one activity that dwarfs all others is online gaming which NUMBER percent of south koreans under NUMBER play according to one recent study critics say the burgeoning industry is creating millions of zombified addicts who are turning on and tuning into computer games and dropping out of school and traditional group activities becoming uncommunicative and even violent because of the electronic games they play game players don t have normal social relationships anymore said kim hyun soo a NUMBER year old psychiatrist who is chairman of the net addiction treatment center one of many groups that have sprung up to cope with internet game addiction young people are losing the ability to relate to others except through games people who become addicted are prone to violence even when they are not playing jim 