GWANGJU, Jan.23 (Korea Bizwire) – A man in his 40s with a history of mental disorders killed himself after killing his wife and two children by hitting them with a blunt weapon. His late wife was said to have mentioned that her husband often threatened to kill her when he was drunk. ‘A’, a man [...]
SEOUL, Jan.18 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study indicates that adolescents who are addicted to smartphones have more suicidal thoughts. Research on the relationship between smartphone addiction and depression among adolescents has been conducted in the past, but the new study marks the first time that smartphone addiction has been tied to suicidal thoughts. Professor [...]
A man in his 30s who lied to his family about passing the civil service examination committed suicide after pretending to go to work for a year. (Image : Pixabay) CHEONAN, Jan.12 (Korea Bizwire) – A man in his 30s who lied to his family about passing the civil service examination committed suicide after pretending [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The majority of suicides in South Korea take place outside the home, which is in stark contrast to other countries where people opt to die at home, an international study showed on Friday. The report, published in the latest issue of the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology and [...]
SEOUL, Dec.16 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that among those suffering from depression, those who have a nocturnal lifestyle are more than twice as likely to commit suicide. A team led by Psychology Professor Lee Seung-hwan of Paik Hospital analyzed the risk of suicide among 120 patients with depression, and made the surprising discovery. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec.1 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team lead by professor Lee Won-jin at the Korea University’s Preventive Medicine Department has announced that since a ban was implemented on the production and sales of Paraquat, a herbicide often used to commit suicide, the number of suicides committed by drinking poisonous herbicides decreased by 56 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) - The Ministry of National Defense is planning to use big data to build a system that analyzes the characteristics of those who cause problems within the military and those who are at risk of committing suicide. It plans to use the system as a point of reference to weed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – As charcoal is often used to commit suicide, a local government, charcoal manufacturers and retailers joined forces to promote a campaign to use the products for the proper purposes. Gyeonggi Province signed an MoU on Sept. 8 with Daemyeong Charcoal and Korea Supermarket Cooperative Fedeeration to hold a “Life [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) - It turns out that the number of soldiers who have experienced maladjustment or were contemplating committing suicide has increased in the three years since 2012. According to the Ministry of National Defense, the number of soldiers that have entered a ‘Green Camp’ found in type A installations showed a [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Women who experience blackouts after drinking have a higher tendency to think about suicide. Professor Park Eun-chul and his team of preventive medicine at Yonsei University analyzed material from the National Nutrition Survey, conducted from 2007 to 2011 on 42,347 adults. They compared drinking frequency and quantity etc., and [...]