people always talk about "internet addiction" in the west, like being on facebook too much when you really should be working etc. but it seems like internet addiction in the east is a million times worse, im always hearing about people getting murdered or killing themselves over some virtual game, its pretty ridiculous.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.
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Internet-Addicted S. Korean Couple Starve Own Baby While Raising a Virtual Child
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05-03-2010, 05:24 PM #2
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Looks like their virtual child might die too now
Yeah the East does seem to have an issue with internet addiction, particularly China & Japan, not quite sure why though.
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Thats just terrible. TBH, Death sentence is the answer.
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Thank you very much for dragging yet another "Death Sentence, yes or no?" discussion into yet another thread. I am truly grateful.
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05-03-2010, 05:59 PM #5
Just brings internet addiction to a new pathetic low.
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05-03-2010, 06:04 PM #6
Surely someone will have seen at the cafe that they weren't treating it right.
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Its Disgusting, that they have a baby but cannot even be bothered to care for it.
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LololPolice officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they "lost their will to live a normal life" after losing their jobs.
Anyway ye that's pretty disturbing and disgusting to be honest, was that 12 hours on the net then 12 hours sleeping whilst the other one played and perhaps 5 minutes inbetween for feeding their insignificant real life baby?
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Hmm, not sure what to say. If they lost their jobs and went into depression where they turned anti-reality, then seeing this isn't really that surprising. If they were perfectly capable of feeding the baby then it would be even worse. Still, it's bad they over-indulged in the internet in the first place, and forgot they had real life commitments.
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05-03-2010, 06:50 PM #10
China & Japan aren't bad - no where is specifically though it's just some. Originally Posted by Jordy
Looks like their virtual child might die too now
Yeah the East does seem to have an issue with internet addiction, particularly China & Japan, not quite sure why though.
They don't care as long as they make money Originally Posted by Gibs960
not a laffin matter joe ;l x Originally Posted by Alkaz
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Anyway ye that's pretty disturbing and disgusting to be honest, was that 12 hours on the net then 12 hours sleeping whilst the other one played and perhaps 5 minutes inbetween for feeding their insignificant real life baby?Always have courage and be kind
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