SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than nine out of 10 people who took their own lives showed warning signs before their deaths, but most people around did not take note of them. The Ministry of Health and Welfare released a report Sunday based on a meeting with 121 bereaved family members of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The special investigative panel recommended Monday that power plant operators end the practice of outsourcing major maintenance work to subcontractors, completing a probe into the death of a young contract worker. Kim Yong-gyun, a 24-year-old contract worker, was killed in a conveyor belt accident in December last year at [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A taxi driver burned himself to death Wednesday in an apparent protest of the introduction of carpooling services by the country’s taxi-hailing app operators. The 76-year-old man, identified only by his surname, Ahn, set fire on himself at around 3:19 a.m. near Seoul Plaza in central Seoul, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A cabbie presumed to have set himself and his taxi on fire in another apparent suicide protest over a planned commercial ride-sharing service, died in hospital early Thursday, police said. A sedan taxi near Gwanghwamun Station in central Seoul caught fire on Wednesday night. The driver, only identified by [...]
GANGNEUNG, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Three senior high school students were found dead and seven others unconscious at a pension in the northeastern province of Gangwon, possibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning caused by inadequate ventilation, local police and firefighters said Tuesday. The owner of the pension, located in the city of Gangneung on [...]
YONGIN, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The only remaining polar bear in South Korea, which had lived in a zoo south of Seoul for more than two decades, has died ahead of his relocation to a wildlife park in Britain later this year, zoo officials said Thursday. The bear, named Tongki, died around 6:00 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been reported that most people who commit suicide tell others that they “want to die” and show signs of being suicidal, but only one out of five family members recognized such warnings. Factors contributing to suicide were different per age group: dating and education for youth, jobs [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Health authorities said early Tuesday that three of the four newborns who died successively in an intensive care unit last week may have been infected with an antibiotics-resistant virus. The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDCP) revealed its interim result on the preliminary blood culture tests of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Forensic doctors were to conduct an autopsy Monday morning on the bodies of four newborn babies to determine what caused them to die successively in an 81-minute period over the weekend. The prematurely born babies were in incubators at the intensive care unit for newborns at Ewha Womans University [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Individuals with a more positive outlook on death are more likely to have better mental health than those who dread the end of life, according to a new survey by a medical team at Seoul National University Hospital. A research team led by professor Yun Young-ho at Seoul National University [...]