SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of seven college graduates hunting jobs have thought of committing suicide due to extreme stress, a survey showed Sunday. According to the survey conducted by the Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center on 124 college graduates currently searching for jobs, 40 percent said they had experienced symptoms [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been reported that most people who commit suicide tell others that they “want to die” and show signs of being suicidal, but only one out of five family members recognized such warnings. Factors contributing to suicide were different per age group: dating and education for youth, jobs [...]
SEJONG, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Suicide was the No. 1 cause of death among teens and young people in South Korea in 2016, with the suicide rate rising over the past decade, a report showed Thursday. According to the report by Statistics Korea, the suicide rate per 100,000 for those aged 9-24 stood at [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has revealed that underweight people are more likely to make extreme decisions like attempting suicide. The details of the study, which was conducted by a research team at Samsung Medical Center, revealed that people who are underweight are 2.4 times more likely to make extreme decisions, based [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Loneliness is one of the biggest health threats facing South Korea, according to a new survey. The survey conducted by the Korean Clinical Psychology Association (KCP) revealed South Korea’s loneliness scale has reached 78 out of 100, due to growing individualism and division between classes, as well as a long-term [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — People suffering from Parkinson’s disease and depression are the most susceptible to committing suicide, a survey showed Monday. Parkinson’s disease patients have 4.72 times higher chances of committing suicide than those who do not have the disease, according to the survey of 300,232 people conducted by professor Kim Doh-kwan [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Young men living alone are at a greater risk of committing suicide while their female counterparts are more prone to unhealthy habits like smoking and drinking, a report said Friday. A research team at Asan Medical Center analyzed the mental and other health patterns of 3,381 people (1,209 men, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A report published by a demographics research institute run by NH Investment and Securities revealed South Korean parents with less education have more children, and cancer is the leading cause of death in the country. The findings showed that university graduates had on average 1.49 children, while high school [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Research into the mental health of single parents has returned troubling results indicating that among an array of worrying factors, suicidal urges and depression were severe problems. The data was compiled from the responses to the national health survey of 12,024 adults between the ages of 30 and 59, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A disturbing number of posts encouraging suicide by introducing possible methods and suicide-pact recruiting have been identified in internet communities and on SNS. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare on August 24, the Korea Suicide Prevention Center and Nuricops, the cybercrime monitoring organization affiliated with the National [...]