SEOUL, South Korea -- A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games nonstop for 49 hours, police said.
The man, identified by police only by his last name, Lee, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally, shunning sleep and refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game "Starcraft."
Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours from what doctors presume was a heart attack.
Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.
Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and to TV stations devoted to broadcasting matches.
As reported in the Washington Examiner, Tuesday, August 16, 2005.
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