Nearly two thirds of South Koreans are smartphone owners; each of them spending 50 per cent or more time on their devices than they did just two years ago.<br /><br />With one of the highest global internet speeds and smartphone pentration rates in the world, psychiatrists worry of the impacts on the brain functions of the wired generation.<br /><br />Scientists say prolonged exposure to the internet and smartphones could lead to anxiety, brain fatigue and increasingly short-term memory.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett met with some people in Seoul who are turning to the familiarity of the analogue world for comfort in an increasingly wired society.
