India, Feb. 13 -- On a frigid February morning in Ghaziabad, three sisters, Nishika (16), Prachi (14) and Pakhi (12) jumped to their deaths from their home on the ninth floor. Police say that besides other circumstances, contacts on their phones and notes recovered at the scene suggest their inability to detach from a virtual world of South Korean culture, aka K-pop, and that they had even taken on Korean names for themselves.

The teens were obsessed with task-based Korean love games. "(The girls) were highly obsessed with the game and thought that they were not Indians, but Koreans. They also portrayed themselves as Korean princesses under the influence of the game," Atul Kumar Singh, ACP Ghaziabad, had told HT City.

While this inciden...