{"id":8579,"date":"2010-11-17T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"south-korean-kid-fights-with-mom-about-games-kills-her-and-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8579-south-korean-kid-fights-with-mom-about-games-kills-her-and-himself","title":{"rendered":"South Korean kid fights with mom about games, kills her and himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of research findings which suggest that male gamers are generally well adjusted compared to female gamers, comes a report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101116\/ap_on_re_as\/as_skorea_internet_killing\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>&nbsp;that a 15 year old South Korean boy allegedly strangled his mother to death following an argument over &ldquo;internet&rdquo; games.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after murdering his mother, the boy hanged himself, said South Korean police official Jung Yo-il.<\/p>\n<p>The boy&rsquo;s younger sister claims that he had been playing violent video games online over the past two to three years.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul is one of the world&rsquo;s most technically advanced cities, with over 90 percent of homes having broadband internet access. An estimated 2 million of its citizens are Internet addicts, and the nation is home to many of the best StarCraft\/StarCraft II players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/9437-South-Korean-gamer-kills-mom-hangs-self\" target=\"_self\" title=\"South Korean kid fights with mom about games, kills her and himself\">South Korean kid fights with mom about games, kills her and himself<\/a> &lt;&lt; Discuss this story on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamer strangles mother the hangs himself over &quot;internet games&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}