As smartphones and tablets become part of daily life, the prevalence of myopia among Korean children and adolescents is rising rapidly. According to the Korean Ophthalmological Society, the proportion of students diagnosed with vision abnormalities in 2024 ranged from 30.8% among first-graders in elementary school to 74.8% among first-year high school students.
Myopia that begins at an early age is accompanied by axial elongation, in which the eyeball grows abnormally long. This significantly raises the risk of serious sight-threatening conditions in adulthood, including glaucoma, retinal detachment and macular degeneration. That is why myopia is now recognized not as a simple vision problem but as a progressive disease that affects lifelong eye health.
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