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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8551122.stm
QuoteS Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby'
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.
Those Koreans sure take their online games seriously.
Pokemans are hard work.
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 05, 2010, 11:37:04 AM
Pokemans are hard work.
So how do we know your kids actually exist and your child bride, mansion, kids etc. aren't just a Sims2 fantasy?
Very sad. Who's going to take care of the virtual kid now? :(
Quote from: Syt on March 05, 2010, 11:38:24 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 05, 2010, 11:37:04 AM
Pokemans are hard work.
So how do we know your kids actually exist and your child bride, mansion, kids etc. aren't just a Sims2 fantasy?
Because I would have killed them off in a toilet hedge maze by now.
... or would you? :shifty:
Quote from: DGuller on March 05, 2010, 11:39:11 AM
Very sad. Who's going to take care of the virtual kid now? :(
Maybe there's a virtual child services office. :unsure:
Sounds like the baby was the control group.
Hilarious... here at work we were just talking about that dude who played WoW straight until he dropped dead at a Korean Internet cafe. :)
Just last week the night staff at a home for the elderly just down the road let one of the residents freeze to death while they were on facebooking.