South Korean police have arrested a man for allegedly allowing his infant son to starve to death while he played online games at Internet caf\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old man, surnamed Chung, was arrested on 14 April after the badly decomposed body of his two-year-old was found in a trash bag near the southeastern city of Daegu.\u00a0The case has received extensive media coverage in South Korea, where the ruling conservative party is pushing a bill that would classify online gaming as potentially addictive as drugs, gambling, and alcohol.<\/p>\n
TV stations aired CCTV footage of Chung in his apartment elevator, nonchalantly checking his hair in the mirror with one hand while holding a trash bag allegedly containing his dead son in the other.\u00a0The details echoed a notorious 2010 case<\/a> that shocked the country when a couple allowed their three-month-old baby to starve to death while they played video games.<\/p>\n In late February, Chung’s wife started working in a factory far from the city, leaving her unemployed husband to care for their child.\u00a0But he spent most of his time in Internet cafes, visiting home every two or three days to feed the child.\u00a0Police said he found the baby dead on March 7 and left the body at home for more than a month, before finally dumping it in a garden a mile away.<\/p>\n Police said Chung initially reported the baby missing, but later confessed to disposing of the body.\u00a0A Daegu police detective working on the case told AFP that Chung would likely be charged with homicide and abandoning a body.<\/p>\n Online game addiction is seen as a serious problem in South Korea – one of the world’s most wired nations with a thriving gaming industry.\u00a0A woman was arrested in 2012 after giving birth in the toilet of an Internet cafe where she had been playing for days, and abandoning the newborn.<\/p>\n Live sex on the PS4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nSource: Sapa<\/h6>\n
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