SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has the highest suicide rate among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its people were less confident about their health, a report showed Sunday. An average of 29.1 people per 100,000 in South Korea took their own lives in 2012, far surpassing the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea ranks 25th among the world’s most prosperous nations. The Legatum Institute’s 2014 Prosperity Index measures a total of eight categories that show how nations perform in the areas of economy, education, health, personal freedom, safety and security, entrepreneurship, social capital and governance. South Korea came 25th in [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – While a recent OECD study showed that life expectancy in Korea has rapidly increased for the past five years, it displayed a shameful aspect of the nation as well, as it revealed that Korea has again, for 10 years in a row, ranked first in suicide rate in among 34 [...]