Internet-obsessed S.Koreans starved baby

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100305/wl_asia_afp/skoreainternetgamecrime

SEOUL (AFP) – A South Korean couple left their baby daughter to starve to death at home while playing an Internet game which simulated child-rearing, police said Friday.

The man aged 41 and his 25-year-old wife were arrested Thursday, five months after they reported the death of their three-month-old baby, a police investigator in the city of Suweon just south of Seoul told AFP.

The father met his wife in 2008 through the Internet. They had been on the run since their baby died.

"They were formally arrested yesterday," the investigator said, declining to give details.

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[nonconformist]

1. That is one of the most fucked up things I've ever read.

Poor baby. :(

[BunkerHill24]

2. That's pretty fucked up story..i f you ask me

I guess they were on a Meth too many days or something.

[LisaM]

3. I saw a piece on NPR about internet addiction a few weeks ago

and it specifically mentioned South Korea. They have camps for kids that are essentially treatment camps. They had a few teenagers there that could barely relate to each other. They successfully pitched a tent after a few days and it was seriously a big deal to them that they could accomplish such a non-computer type thing. It was very sad.

They showed some type of business they have there (can't remember the name, it had "Ban" in it) where there were just rows and rows of kids playing video games with dead looks on their faces. It was creepy.

[snagglepuss]

5. That sounds like kids who weren't able to identify common fruits and veggies.

There's a video of kids unable to identify a tomato amongst other things when asked to do so by Jamie Oliver. I am not suggesting it has to do with internet addiction but there seems to be a shocking decline of basic knowledge.

[LisaM]

6. A woman wrote a book on this after her son moved out and got scurvy

Among other things, he didn't know what a cookie sheet was

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/in-the-garden/gardening-tips/Moms+write+survival+guide+coddled+young+adults/801230/story.html

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