After Blue Whale Game, now Korean Lover Game has started playing with people's lives. In these games, people are given online challenges, till now many people have lost their lives because of the Blue Whale game and now the Korean Lover game has also started snatching people's lives. Blue Whale Challenge started in Russia and this game became very popular in 2016-2017.
A case of suicide of three real sisters living in Ghaziabad due to Korean game has come to light. This case is of Bharat City, Ghaziabad, these three sisters committed suicide by jumping from the 9th floor.
Korean Love Game is an online, task-based interactive game. According to the report of News18, this Korean Lover Game is a theme and task-based online romantic game in which players interact with a virtual partner. The game is easily available on mobile platforms and websites and is heavily based on Korean pop culture, including K-dramas and K-pop. According to the report of India Today, 50 tasks are given in the game.
According to the Economic Times report, in the Korean Lover Game, players choose a virtual partner who speaks in Korean, sends love messages and gives daily tasks. As the game progresses, these tasks become more difficult. Early actions may involve chatting, sharing photos, or being in constant conversation, while later actions become more personal and, in some cases, risky or harmful.
These games are built on the popularity of Korean entertainment culture, which encourages users to immerse themselves in a fantasy. After a recent incident, police investigation revealed that the three sisters had started playing this online game excessively during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Several reports have compared the structure of the Korean Lover game to Blue Whale Challenge, a Russian online game in which 50 tasks were given in 50 days, with the last task asking one to self-harm. It was told about the Blue Whale Challenge that it was an online suicide game which was for teenagers, this challenge has caused many deaths around the world. In the Blue Whale Challenge, the tasks were quite easy initially. Waking up in the middle of the night or watching a horror movie but as the days passed, these tasks became more dangerous.
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