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The PC Bang offers skilled game players like Insoo perks such as free transportation.
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The first thing Insoo does after Hakwon is, of course, turn on the PC.
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Like all his classmates, Insoo's main means of communication with his buddies is text messaging.
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Insoo Kim, 14, is a typical junior high school student in Seoul.
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But these days, Insoo and his friends don't simply use their phones to send an SMS, or to take pictures or listen to MP3 music.
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Who knows, one day a kid like Insoo may grow up to become the national Lineage champion, giving the PC Bang he frequented exposure on national TV?
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Within about 10 minutes of posting, someone chimes in with a good answer, and Insoo awards him with some "Knowledge Power" points -- knowledge-based economy in action among 14-year-olds.
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Insoo has a few hours to kill before going to Hakwon, a private special-subject school, so he calls up the owner of a PC Bang and asks for a ride.
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Whenever funny things happen during the day, Insoo and friends shoot video with their phones and send the clip to portal sites, hoping their clips will be featured on the portals' homepages.
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Insoo has a difficult math problem as homework.
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This peek into the everyday life of an imaginary South Korean boy named Insoo Kim offers insight into what the life of youths in the rest of the world might be like in the near future.
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Insoo doesn't even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to slide it open, which buttons to push how many times to reach the "Send SMS" menu option, compose the entire text message, and hit the send button -- all without even looking at the phone.
CNN: A day in the (digital) life of a South Korean boy