”Is my child addicted to smartphones?”...One in five teenagers in Korea is ”over-dependent”

It has been reported that one in five young people in South Korea is at risk of becoming overly dependent on the Internet or smartphones.
In particular, the risk group for Internet overdependence was male junior high school students, while the risk group for smartphone overdependence was female junior high school students.
The survey revealed that students were the most common. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family of Korea conducted a survey of 1,249,317 adolescents in the transitional school years (first grade of elementary school, fourth grade of elementary school, first grade of middle school, and first grade of high school) and 256,699 parents.
The results of the 2024 Youth Media Usage Habit Diagnostic Survey were announced on the 25th. According to the survey, 221,029 people, or 17.7% of young people, are at risk of internet and smartphone overdependence.
This means that approximately one in five adolescents is at risk for internet/smartphone overdependence.
However, the risk group for overdependence on the Internet and smartphones has been decreasing since 2022.
The number is expected to decrease from 235,687 in 2019 to 230,634 in 2023, a decrease of 9,605 people from last year.