South Korean couple neglects child to death for video games

[zuron7]

So we have to start producing virtual children now.

 

[_Chaz_]

Sounds like they have their priorities straight.

What's the problem?

 

[Hop2089]

So we have to start producing virtual children now.

lol

We already have virtual girlfriends, virtual wives (just ask me I seen the wedding and vacation videos), and now virtual children. Where's the virtual pregnancy simulator?

 

[_Chaz_]

So we have to start producing virtual children now.

lol

We already have virtual girlfriends, virtual wives (just ask me I seen the wedding and vacation videos), and now virtual children. Where's the virtual pregnancy simulator?

New Wii game for 2011.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Yah I saw this story a couple days ago, it's pretty fucking sad.

 

[xxRAG3]

Just a note people.

Games don't kill people. People kill people

SK people aren't evil because 2 of them are retard sociopaths. Live life and go on. If you become addicted to games, you are the problem, not games.

 

[IBNobody]

Just wait 'till Starcraft II gets released.

 

[Raiser]

Just fucking disgusting.

Virtual child > RL child?! Hmm..
Don't even want to think about it anymore.

 

[MuppetInvasion]

Just fucking disgusting.

Virtual child > RL child?! Hmm..
Don't even want to think about it anymore.

When you think about it using what i said....

Rocks > RL Child

 

[Demonbart]

Wow, these people suck at life.

 

[_Chaz_]

Wow, these people suck at life.

No, they suck at Guarding life.

 

[ojsinnerz.]

Sometimes, stories about video game addiction are alarmist malarkey to bump up ratings. Other times, they're just flat-out tragic: The Next Web reports that a couple in South Korea has been arrested for allegedly allowing their prematurely born baby to starve to death while they were busy tending to a virtual kid at an Internet café.

The couple reportedly fed their baby only once a day between 12-hour stretches of play-time with a popular role-playing game called Prius Online, in which they were busy raising a virtual kid. The autopsy report of their baby showed the death was a result of a long period of malnutrition.

"The couple seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life, because they didn't have jobs and gave birth to a premature baby," said South Korean police officer Chung Jin-won. "They indulged themselves in the online game of raising a virtual character so as to escape from reality, which led to the death of their real baby."

This of course isn't the first report of online and game addiction leading to tragic results in South Korea -- back in 2005, a gamer who played StarCraft for 50 hours straight died after suffering cardiac arrest. They even opened the "Jump Up Internet Addiction" school -- a boot camp of sorts for people suffering online and gaming addiction -- in South Korea in 2007.

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It always happens in South Korea for some reason. This is just fucking sad. No cynical comment here. These people are just pricks.

The story is sad, yep. But you know, some people are like that in the world. People can't accept reality and live like that. I've seen these kinds of stories before.

And it always happen in South Korea? Guild McIgnorant does it again. That's totally why the suicides in Japan doesn't exist, and that guy from China dying from playing video games non-stop doesn't exist either. Oh oh, how about that one American who killed his parents for taking away Halo? Then there's that Canadian who ran away from home when his video game console was taken away. Doesn't happen in just one goddamn country. Aren't those sad too? Yes, they are different things, but you know what? People result in death either way. It happens everywhere else, stop being such a fucking idiot.

 

[MuppetInvasion]

But south Korea goes that one step further

 

[Maz7006]

...

 

[shakirmoledina]

they have done the same thing we are doing, but the effects were worst... what i mean is wasting time playing games for too long is something we should be careful of too bcz maybe in the future it may become an addiction and we may end up losing something important
this is only one incident tht has been reported now but there may be so many which we dont know of

 

[Guild McCommunist]

The story is sad, yep. But you know, some people are like that in the world. People can't accept reality and live like that. I've seen these kinds of stories before.

And it always happen in South Korea? Guild McIgnorant does it again. That's totally why the suicides in Japan doesn't exist, and that guy from China dying from playing video games non-stop doesn't exist either. Oh oh, how about that one American who killed his parents for taking away Halo? Then there's that Canadian who ran away from home when his video game console was taken away. Doesn't happen in just one goddamn country. Aren't those sad too? Yes, they are different things, but you know what? People result in death either way. It happens everywhere else, stop being such a fucking idiot.

If you read the article you would've seen the story about the South Korean kid dying after 50 hours of Starfcraft. I didn't mean it as being racist, I meant it as in there's a lot of gaming and internet related problems in South Korea.

 

[Danny Tanner]

They let their child die so they could play with rocks. That's about how it boils down to when you realize humans are just animals.


QUOTE(ZeroTm @ Mar 6 2010, 10:52 PM) Humans never cease to make me sick. That's is just disgusting.

If 'humans' are so bad, it shouldn't matter that this little one died, no?

 

[mrfatso]

what the fish... my friend was telling me about this news a moment ago...

Just wait 'till Starcraft II gets released.

guess we can just say good bye to a certain percentage of the korean population?

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Twelve hours in between each feeding? Holy shit, my brother's baby needs to eat every two to three hours!

I don't think they were being neglectful, I think they just didn't care. Plenty of people here care about real life, therefore we get off of our asses and do shit. These people had no jobs. It's not that raising a virtual child was important to them, it's just that they don't give a fuck enough to do anything about their real life problems.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

neglectful
didn't care

Aren't those the same?

Ontopic: That's bad... Hopefully others will learn from their mistake and not do something as cruel as this...