UP triple death: Korean Love Game link, suicide note and eyewitness claims add twits to Ghaziabad horror

The three minor sisters — Pakhi (12), Prachi (14) and Vishika (16) — allegedly died by suicide in the early hours of Wednesday at their residential apartment in Bharat City, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Initial media reports suggested the girls may have taken the extreme step after their parents objected to their alleged obsession with online “Korean love games.”

According to a neighbour, Arun Singh, he noticed unusual movement on the balcony around 2 am.

“I saw someone sitting on the balcony railing, trying to jump. I couldn’t figure out if it was a man or a woman because I was standing at a distance,” Singh told NDTV. “I called my wife and said someone was attempting suicide. She thought it might be a marital dispute.”

Singh said he initially believed it was a couple, as one person appeared to be pulling the individual back from the railing.

“I thought a man was trying to jump and his wife was trying to stop him,” he said.

However, moments later, he realised it involved three girls.

“One of the girls had initially managed to pull the person sitting on the railing back. But the person returned and sat on the ledge again. Then another small girl came and hugged the person tightly. Before I could call anyone for help, all three — the one sitting on the railing and the two trying to pull her back — fell headfirst,” Singh said.

He added that it took nearly an hour for the police and ambulance to arrive after he made the call.

“In a country where pizza and groceries are delivered in 10 minutes, it took an ambulance an hour. It is a sad reality,” he said.

Meanwhile, the father of the girls, Chetan Kumar, claimed that his daughters were deeply obsessed with Korean culture and online gaming. According to him, they had even adopted Korean names for themselves.

“They said, ‘Papa, sorry. Korea is our life. Korea is our biggest love. Whatever you say, we cannot give it up,’” he told NDTV.

Suicide Note

Police recovered an eight-page handwritten note from a pocket diary. According to reports, it detailed their gaming and mobile phone activities.

The note reportedly read: “Is diary me jo kuch bhi likha hai woh sab padh lo kyuki ye sab sach hai (Read everything written in this diary because all of it is true)."

A hand-drawn crying emoji was sketched at the end of the note.

What is the “Korean Love Game”?

According to media reports, the so-called “Korean love game” is an online, task-based social interaction game that circulates through social media platforms. In some versions, participants initiate conversations by pretending to be Korean or foreign boys or girls.

Police told The Tribune that the sisters had reportedly developed an online gaming habit during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their parents had grown concerned after the girls allegedly began missing school and spending excessive time online. Sources said the family had recently argued over limiting their gaming time and focusing on studies, shortly before the incident.

Authorities are continuing their investigation.