there's a lot of people with internet addictions in Korea I watch YouTube
literally every single day for 18 hours this is opportunity for me to fix my problems
pretty much everyone in South Korea has a smartphone and access to the Internet it's
the most connected country in the world that might sound great but it can be a big problem official
figures for last year show that over 140,000 young people here were addicted to the Internet but some
reports suggest that number could be much higher I'm on my way to a camp in a place called Moo zoo
where teenagers go for help to get off line it's why there are sensors like this one across South
Korea the aim is help prevent young people from developing an internet addiction since 2014 over
1200 teenagers have been to camps here how in seventeen and addicted to YouTube she wanted to
come here after realizing she spent way too much time online hi thank you the camp has strict rules
no phones are allowed all the rules here are like you can't use your phone or go alone so we tend
to keep that promise i watch YouTube literally every single day and during the days I watch it
for 18 hours thank you now take the phone with me to the bathroom or eating I'll just hold it
and I will eat it in my mouth like just watch it for one hour but then it goes on and on oh no no
no when I look at the clock say oh my god I was like so it's a bit hard to stop affected my school
studies and when our friends like met we only did our phone and not talk to each other I fell asleep
in school I would be like sleepy sleepy sleepy I would like like mad at people for no reason
and then I'll be like happy in one side and bad in one side and I'll be like I have to fix this
this is the bed for three of us this is my bed is my friends as the teachers bed I came here because
of my internet addiction I wanted to overcome that addiction to look around my surroundings
and not just the phone Kurian working or studying it's really hard it's really really hard I don't
think anyone can contain that stress so I think they use their smartphones to de-stress how one
isn't alone she's one of ten girls at this camp some of the others are here because they struggle
to stop using their phones and spend a lot of time taking selfies and using social media depending on
how serious their internet or smartphone problem is they say for between one and four weeks on the
first day they said we're gonna collect your phone and I was like oh my god I'm gonna die without my
phone but then as the days went on I was like it's not bad I don't need my filter anymore take a call
without you going they really struggle some of them say they want to go home from the moment
they hand it they have a loss of the time is spent trying to make them feel better about themselves
many young people who come here might be confident online if they get a lot of likes in social media
or do well in the game but in real life they might really struggle all the activities here
are designed to get them out of the digital world and back into the real world they have counseling
sessions as well as doing crafts playing games at sport today the group is making soap to give to
elderly people in the community I got a letter a bit too much stress so I got into YouTube videos
so when I watch them I'm like happy like I'm in another world Tony came in as me we try to
give them alternatives to the internet games and social media so when we run a camp we try lots of
different activities to show the teenagers that they can have no self-confidence outside of the
cyber world and it's a problem which is taken seriously here it's a government which pays for
camps like this one it came for an on-campus very long but our counselors at the teenagers know for
themselves when to stop using their phone it's not just about cutting down they're planting a
seed attitude those changes when you leave here do you think you use your phone less I might
maybe take that time from 18 hours to 10 hours and spend more time with my family instead of
my phone and go outside take a hike so I can't enjoy life without my phone without the stress