SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A revision to the enforcement ordinance of the Suicide Prevention Act will take effect on Thursday, clearing the way for public institutions to share information on suicide attempts. To ensure the efficacy of the law, the Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to distribute a guidebook and provide on-site [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The top court has opened the way for the beneficiaries of those who commit suicide in a state of deep depression to be eligible for insurance payouts. Thus far, the beneficiaries of policyholders who commit suicide have been excluded from the payment of insurance money. According to the latest [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has established a system to ensure the swift rescue of citizens attempting suicide on bridges spanning the Han River. The Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters said Thursday that it had set up an integrated Han River Bridge CCTV control center within the Ttukseom Rescue [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A suicide committed by an airline employee during forced leave following the coronavirus outbreak has been recognized as a work accident. The Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service announced Tuesday that it had notified the family members of the late Korean Air Lines Co. employee in September that the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their teens and 20s, especially women in their 20s, are increasingly committing suicide due primarily to anxiety and a sense of desperation. Statistics Korea reported that from 2010 to 2020, the number of individuals who committed suicide annually dropped by 15.2 percent from 15,566 people [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has mapped out a suicide prevention plan for pop culture artists as part of efforts to prevent the suicide of famous celebrities as well as copycat suicides. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Welfare developed the plan after holding a ministerial conference on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — One third of people attempting suicide are struggling with alcohol abuse, and 5 percent of them resort to attempting suicide again within a year, a recent study showed. Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital held an online seminar last week to celebrate world suicide prevention day on Sept. 10. Dr. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s suicide death rate dropped steadily for over 2013 to 2017, government data showed Sunday. The data compiled by the health ministry and Korea Foundation for Suicide Prevention showed that 22.8 out of 100,000 South Koreans took their own lives in 2017, dropping from 24.4 in 2016. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The impulse to commit suicide is proportional to the risk of a financial crisis faced by an individual for two consecutive years, research showed Tuesday. A research team from the medical college of Korea University conducted an analysis of 14,321 people using 2012 to 2018 Korea Welfare Panel Study [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 50 percent of the people who are hopitalized after attempting suicide have attempted suicide previously, and many of them were drunk when they did so. The Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a survey of 22,572 people who were sent to emergency rooms at 66 hospitals across the [...]