S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby

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A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.

 

The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

 

Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.

 

He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality.

 

The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby.

 

An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition.

 

The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.

 

The game enables players to interact with Anima and as they do so, help her to recover her lost memory and develop emotions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8551122.stm

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

:inappropriate zergling joke + kekekekeke:

Seriously, that's the worst thing I've heard in a long time and I feel absolutely terrible. Poor thing.

Life is fycked up - but even more fucled up in south korea!

heheheeheeheh

But is the virtual baby alright? Goddamn it!!?

  On 3/6/2010 at 1:00 AM, Gary C said:

But is the virtual baby alright? Goddamn it!!?

he's been placed with foster parents.

South Korean baby is put into foster care with virtual parents

Yeah South Koreans and internet cafes/Starcraft/online games always seem to end in tragedy.

Still, that's fucked up.

i say we drop a turd on that bowling fuck

these sons of a bitch and they thought they could raise a fucking BABY?!

lol, classic Friday night in South Korea.

yeah it would have been so much better if they'd let it die cause of meth addiction.

People in asia are loosing their minds ..

This is extremely fudged. I wonder if it's the same parents that allegedly let their baby starve to death whilst playing World Of Warcraft

re: chengod (too lazy to quote), have you heard the stories of korean people dying after playing starcraft for 30 hours and shit like that? it's so weird, seems like s. korea is pretty on point in a lot of ways, but break out the computer games and

KY: yeah there were like two or three cases of that. More than just the one Wikipedia has. Interesting to make the comparisons between these three countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#South_Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#China

  On 3/6/2010 at 12:03 AM, Yegg said:

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A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.

 

The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.

 

Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.

 

He said they "indulged themselves online" to escape from reality.

 

The 41-year-old father and his 25-year-old wife were arrested in the city of Suweon, south of Seoul, earlier this week, five months after they reported the death of their baby.

 

An autopsy showed her death was caused by a long period of malnutrition.

 

The couple had become obsessed with nurturing a virtual girl called Anima in the popular role-playing game Prius Online, police said on Friday.

 

The game enables players to interact with Anima and as they do so, help her to recover her lost memory and develop emotions.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8551122.stm

 

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

This sort of bourgeois excess wouldn't have happened on north korea.