Yet more troubles in an MMOG-obsessed nation today as it is revealed a South Korean couple allow their baby to die, after the child was left alone for five hours while the parents went to a Baang (internet cafE to play World of Warcraft. "We were thinking of playing for just an hour or two and returning home like usual, but the game took longer that day," the parents confessed, after being arrested on criminal charges. The baby was just four-months old when left alone, and died of suffocation when she rolled onto her stomach.

South Korean authorities have already said that the parents will be made to defend this apparent case of outrageous neglect in court. "It's unfortunate, because the tragedy could have been averted if the couple had just left their daughter with Yu's mother-in-law, who lived upstairs from them," said the police. "We booked the pair on criminal charges, judging that when you consider the situation, they were responsible for their daughter's death."

This isn't the first time that gaming addictions have resulted in tragedy, certainly not in - where games playing comprises one of the nation's staple hobbies - but this perhaps does represent a new low.

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. Shinjin Unregistered 4 years ago

    Omg....I got nothing else to say about this...

  2. nobody Unregistered 3 years ago

    Seriously, don't blame it on the game, it's the irresponsable parents fault! the game has NOTHING to do with it, except for the fact that the parents don't have enouhg will power to stop playing it!

  3. Ali Unregistered 2 years ago

    its these game-crazy people who shoudnt get so addicted to WoW. if they've got a baby, they have to focus on that, not on games.

  4. ehhh Unregistered 1 year ago

    I played it once i had a prepaid card and then another month so i was addicted for 5 months. I think. When I look back it was really overhyped and not that great alot like runescape and just not as boring but close. Runescape was a huge waste of my life where i was addicted for years since i was so god dam stupid. They are just to long and these games make you want to play more and more because you feel like your getting somewhere but your really not.

  5. ODB Unregistered 1 year ago

    Everything is warcrafts fault! If everbodies parents cancelled thier kids accounts like MINE did it would be good. I might get it back though find Omzie on Dethroc im horde

  6. mary Unregistered 1 year ago

    this is so sad.i can barley stop crying.kids are getting a raw deal of parents that carry on like this.a 4month old should not be left alone at all for any amount of time.How the hell did they forget about the baby.i have to babies and am addicted to the internet.i love my kids more than the air i breath.i pray for that little baby.may the angels wrap her in there wings.

  7. john Unregistered 3 weeks ago

    I just dont get how you could do such a thing