SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are living longer than most of their global peers, but the country continues to grapple with the highest suicide rate among OECD nations, underscoring a stark contrast between physical longevity and mental well-being. According to the OECD Health Statistics 2025 report released Wednesday by South Korea’s Ministry [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s suicide rate declined in 2023 but remained the highest among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a government report, which also highlighted rising rates of sex crimes and drunk driving in the country. The report, “Korea’s Safety Report 2023,” released on April [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea witnessed a decline in its suicide rate and the number of suicide deaths last year compared to a year earlier but suicides among teenagers and individuals in their 40s increased. The overall decline in the suicide rate can be attributed to the return to normalcy following the termination [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — During the peak of the pandemic between 2020 and 2022, South Korea grappled with a troubling reality: the number of suicides, totaling 39,267, exceeded the count of coronavirus-related deaths, which stood at 32,056. This disconcerting trend has sparked serious concerns within the country. According to a recent report from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s suicide rate slightly increased in 2021 amid the pandemic, data showed Monday, led by people in their 20s and those aged 70 and above. The number of suicides for every 100,000 South Koreans came to 26 in 2021, up 0.3 from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The suicide rate among young South Koreans in their 20s marked a sharp increase last year compared to the figure recorded in 2016. The number of suicides among young people between the ages of 21 and 30 stood at 1,501 in 2020, up 32 percent from 1,137 in 2016, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Of all the member states within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), South Korea has the highest suicide rate. Although it has fallen slightly in recent years, the rate has gone up again due to the slowdown in the shipbuilding sector in South Gyeongsang Province. According to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A disturbing number of posts encouraging suicide by introducing possible methods and suicide-pact recruiting have been identified in internet communities and on SNS. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare on August 24, the Korea Suicide Prevention Center and Nuricops, the cybercrime monitoring organization affiliated with the National [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The average suicide rate among South Koreans is 2.6 times higher than that of the European Union, according to new statistics. According to Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics institute, 58,000 of 4.9 million Europeans who died in 2014 took their own lives, accounting for 1.2 percent of all deaths [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a modest improvement over the past five years, South Korea still remains among the countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, a new WHO report has revealed. The South Korean suicide rate is 28.4 per 100,000 individuals, ranking fourth among 183 countries surveyed in the 2017 [...]