Korea is reviewing tighter rules on minors’ social media use and is set to begin a smartphone-free schools pilot in September at 200 schools nationwide. The piece argues that adults who write such rules are themselves deeply dependent on screens. It says regulation should be paired with platform safeguards and broader social changes, not only age-based bans.
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Korea is moving to keep minors off social media and phones out of classrooms, but the adults writing those rules cannot look up from their own screens.
A few days ago, heading home from work, I was standing seven stories underground at Daegok Station on Subway Line 3. Six elevators connect to the transfer platform, and long lines backed up at each. I picked the shorter one and waited. The elevator stayed on the second floor.
Wrong line?
