SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that roughly 4 percent of military service members have had suicidal thoughts. A research team led by Prof. Lee Seung-yup from the Catholic University of Korea Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital and Dr. Yoon Chang-gyo from the World Health Organization analysed the 2014 survey conducted [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly one out of three middle and high school students in South Korea mulled suicide over the past year due to academic burden, a survey showed Monday. In a poll of 5,669 middle and high school students conducted by the state-run National Youth Policy Institute from July to October [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will provide consultation and treatment to individuals who have attempted suicide when they are hospitalized in emergency rooms as part of efforts to prevent similar attempts from reoccurring. On Monday, the Ministry of Health and Welfare launched a trial project to promote the emergency room ex-post management [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Elderly individuals who suffer from executive function disorder (EFD), a type of cognitive disorder, are up to seven times more likely to commit suicide than elderly people without EFD, a research showed Monday. A research team from Seoul National University Hospital said it had confirmed this fact after seven [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite all-out efforts made by the South Korean government and professionals to prevent suicide, the country’s suicide rate continues to top the list of member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with no sign of a decline. Against this backdrop, a recent study showed that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of South Koreans who commit suicide show distinct warning signs by talking about death or organizing their surroundings prior to their death. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Psychological Autopsy Center recently disclosed a series of interviews conducted with 683 family members of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Online communities set up to stop self-harm and suicide are offering teenagers a place to share and relate to one another. There are some seven groups on Facebook dedicated to the prevention of self-harm in South Korea, many of which opened after February following the onset of the coronavirus [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 50 percent of South Koreans who attempt suicide do so while they are drunk, a recent study has revealed. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Suicide Prevention Center conducted a study of 21,545 people from 16 cities and provinces who were transferred to the emergency [...]
SEJONG, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Suicide remained the leading cause of death among young people in South Korea in 2018, a report showed Monday, a chronic problem that has plagued the nation for more than a decade. The suicide rate per 100,000 people aged between 9 and 24 stood at 9.1 in 2018, up [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that teenagers who go to sleep later at night are more prone to committing suicide. A research team from Yonsei University College of Medicine conducted a survey of 48,218 people (23,391 male, 24,827 female) who participated in a health survey conducted by the Korea [...]