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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past five years, as many as 29 employees of state-run postal service operator Korea Post, including letter carriers, were found to have committed suicide. Rep. Yoon Sang-jik of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party reported that 21 of the 29 Korea Post employees who committed suicide between 2015 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of firefighters are choosing to commit suicide. The National Fire Agency (NFA) reported on Tuesday that as many as 56 firefighters committed suicide between 2015 and 2019, which is twice the number of deaths in the line of duty (23 people). Between 2013 and 2017, 47 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of low-income or unemployed individuals are resorting to suicide, sending a warning signal to the current safety net system offered by the government to protect socially vulnerable groups. The Citizens’ Reunion for Life Respect, a civic group, reported that 3,390 people committed suicide last year due [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The dangers of ‘copycat suicide’ following the deaths of popular celebrities are most striking among women in their 20s, a recent study has revealed. A joint research team from Asan Medical Center and the University of Ulsan College of Medicine studied how 10 cases of popular celebrities who committed [...]