Untangling a wired addiction

TO GO WITH AFP STORY SKorea-technology-IT-addiction-health,FEATURE by JUNG Ha-Won This picture taken on June 11, 2013 shows South Korean children during a special class on smartphone addiction at an elementary school in Seongnam, south of Seoul. South Korea, after boasting for years advanced technology from high-speed Internet to Samsung smartphones, is now taking pains to try to pull its tech-crazed youth away from digital addiction. AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE

South Korea is conducting special classes to help its young people break away from their over-reliance of smartphones and all things digital.

SHE pulls no punches as she warns a classroom of wide-eyed South Korean 10-year-olds that they stand on the edge of an addiction that will turn them all into “mindless slaves”.