Games curfew for South Korean kids

Children in South Korea are being restricted on how much time they can spend playing online games.

Some popular games will ban school kids from playing them between midnight and 8am, to stop them staying up all night. And other games will slow down people's internet connections once they've been playing them for a long time.

Just a few gaming companies are doing this now, but the government in South Korea is going to make most of the big firms agree to it soon.

The government there is also asking companies to monitor who plays their games all the time, and to make a note of their age.

Parents can also be told if their identity number is being used online - so they can keep track of what their kids are doing.

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Nineteen of the most popular online games in South Korea will eventually be included in the new law, which will have a huge impact on children who play them all the time.

Online gaming is huge in South Korea, with many people playing them for hours and hours a day. The government is starting to get worried about how long some people - especially kids - are playing them for. So they've introduced these new plans to try to help the problem.