Online Game online games addiction baby boy

Online Game online games addiction baby boy

A South Korean girl three months old starved to death after her parents left her repeatedly for periods of 12 hours to grout in a local Internet cafe, where they were feeding a child through a virtual game computer known as "Prius Online."
The father is 41 years old and the mother of 25 found her daughter dead after returning from real coffee. The autopsy revealed that the baby died of prolonged malnutrition.
While in line, the couple was raising a virtual daughter, apparently as a form of escapism from their own lives. Both parents were unemployed recently and her baby was born prematurely, which is taboo in Korean culture and is considered failure of the parents.
Chung Jin-won, a police officer in Suwon, a suburb of the nation's capital, Seoul, told Yonhap news agency: "The couple seemed to have lost the will to live a normal life, because they had jobs and gave birth to a premature baby ... they are not as dedicated to online gaming to raise a virtual character to escape reality, which led to the death of her real baby. "
About 96 percent of South Koreans consider Internet access as a "fundamental right" and 15 million - 30 percent of the population - play online, according to BBC News.
In 2005, a 28 year old South Korean man collapsed and died while playing a video game for 50 consecutive hours with little food and rest.