May.3,2007
Korean Children 'Obsessed' with Text Messaging
Kim Hyun-suk is a sophomore in high school and a so-called thumb jockey: he is constantly sending text messages to friends regardless of time and place. Hyun-suk sends so many text messages that it broke the buttons on his phone and gave him carpal tunnel syndrome -- the painful swelling and inflammation of the fingers and wrists associated with excessive typing that increasingly affects excessive users of mobile phones.