Games and drugs are same thing?

Cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, these are name of drugs. These are very addictive things. Once people start to take drugs, they cannot easily get out. Drugs are banned in the most nations because it is harmful to people. How about these things? Such as Resident evil, Walking dead, GTA (grand theft auto) , these are games. These games are very famous over the world. Most people may have played this game at least once. There is a joke, : There can be a person who have not played games, but there is no person who played game only one time. As this paragraph shows, game is a part of our daily life and big part of leisure. In terms of industry, game industries make enormous profit to their countries. Especially, in Korea, games take more profit than other industries such as K-pop or movies. But in a few months ago, Ministry of Gender equality and Family prepare a bill that under 20 years old teenagers cannot play game since 10 o’clock so called ‘Shut down system’. In succession, since the on October 20, 2013, the Korea government regards game as drugs. Why game should be defined as drugs? What the causes that they made such a miserable law of games? This essay deals with reasons why such law is deducted and the negative effects of banning game.

First, the reasons game is regarded as drugs and harmful things. There are many causes that game is pointed out as drugs. Those of reasons, most typical reasons are following. First is in the newspaper or TV, most of articles about game are negative. For instance, the boy who killed his family or his friends or the mother who killed her babies because of game is the famous articles. These accidents are happening throughout the world. Second is old generations’ idea of games. In the past, old gener...

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...osed of people. People are based on country. If people could not vigor, country could not vigor too.

Game is not a drug. It can be a leisure, hobby and job. Prevent people from playing games the only reason that games are addictive, sexual is not right. Although, game has some side-effects, games also have many advantages. Profits from game contents are enormous and games offer many job to people. To get a advantage of economic and our life quality, we should know more about law about games and the purpose or will of government why they try to banned games. Nowadays, social media, such as face book, internet news are open to many people. Enjoying games are the right of people’s liberty and right. To prevent right is infringed from government, people should endeavor and concern about current events and politics. To do so, we can make our leisure more variety.