Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and organized by the Korea Arts & Culture Education Service and the Game Culture Foundation in collaboration with the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, the '2026 Humanities Healing Family Camp for Addressing Digital Over-immersion' took place from August 15 to 17 at Wisdom Forest and Jijihyang in Paju, Gyeonggi.

The event saw 22 teenagers—ranging from 5th grade of elementary school to 3rd grade of middle school (11 boys, 11 girls)—and their 22 guardians participate. In an environment designed to detach from digital devices and focus on one another, participants engaged in literature-based humanities healing and various family experiential programs.

The initiative was launched as a pilot project in the Gyeonggi region, linked to the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education’s 'Phone-Free School' policy, which aims to reduce smartphone usage and fill the void with RAS Gyeonggi arts, culture, and sports education.

Pre- and post-camp self-assessments conducted on the 22 teenagers revealed a significant shift: the number of smartphone dependency risk cases dropped from 22 to zero, and game over-immersion problem cases fell from 21 to zero. While the Game Culture Foundation acknowledges the limitations of self-reported results from a short two-night, three-day stay, the foundation intends to accumulate more data and diagnostic results from future sessions to rigorously verify the program's healing efficacy.

Yoo Byung-han, the Chair of the Game Culture Foundation, remarked, 'I hope this camp serves as a stepping stone beyond individual habit-checking, helping the whole family become a solid support system for one another to find digital balance in daily life.' Yoo Byung-han added, 'We will actively incorporate feedback from the field into our final camp this October to further refine the program as a leader in healthy digital culture for youth.'

The foundation is set to host the 'Humanities Healing Talk Talk Camp' for youth in the metropolitan area from October 9 to October 11 at The Forest Academy House. Any student from 5th grade of elementary school to 3rd grade of middle school struggling with digital over-immersion can apply for free.

Further details can be found on the foundation's official website.