Kim Kyung-jae played a game online for so long that he ______________(1) and died. Lien Wen-cheng also died after he spent 36 hours playing an online game in a / an ______________(2). These two men were _______________(3) to online games, and they could not stop playing.
_______________(4) in many countries are worried about this. In China, experts in mental health have asked the government to officially recognize Internet addiction as a / an _____________(5). They_____________(6) that it affects as many as 10 million young Chinese. The experts are concerned about members of the ______________(7) who have grown up in the age of the Internet. South Korean officials are also worried. South Korea is one of the most _______________(8) countries in the world. Ninety percent of households there have _______________(9) to high-speed Internet.
Being on the Internet can be a problem if people spend too much time playing online games and get too involved in the ____________(10) of the games. When the Internet plays too big a/an _______________(11) in someone’s life, it becomes a problem. At that point, the person probably needs ________________(12) ________________(13).