Korea has by far the best players in some of the esports genres like RTS and MOBAS and that should be celebrated.

"Lee Young-ho, a StarCraft player for KT Rolster — the South Korean professional StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II team — is one of the ‘professionals’ who are destroying their lives and their bodies playing online games"

ughh, are you kidding me? Destroying his life? He made insane amount of money playing Starcraft and everyone in South Korea knows his name. No, everyone outside of Korea who has had any interest in esports knows who Flash is. Sure he had an injury and needed surgery but why is that so weird? If you look at any sport you'll see that players get benched because of injuries on regular basis, it's nothing unusual.

" A 2011 study found that teenage students were spending more than 2 hours every day after school playing video games."

Just like teenagers in every other country? lol

The addition part is pretty disturbing and Korea does have more extreme cases than others. It happened mostly because PC bangs were so cheap that for a few dollars you could stay there all day while having a computer at home wasn't affordable. It evolved into social and cultural thing for them. Not sure how to solve the issue of addiction but surely not through the electroshock therapy that was common in Korea.