SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A new study has found that the suicide risk for heavy drinkers who also smoke is 256 times higher than for people who don’t drink and smoke. Drinking combined with smoking is like adding fuel to the fire. A research team led by doctoral candidate Jeong Myeong-ji at Yonsei [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Citizen’s Coalition for Safety (CCS) has argued that the elderly show clearer signs of wanting to commit suicide compared to other demographic groups, making it easier to intervene in any suicide attempts. Yang Du-seok, the director of the Center for Suicide Prevention at the CCS, said Tuesday at [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Harmful suicide-related information was found to be easily accessible by users on social media websites, particularly on Instagram, where the greatest number of posts regarding such information was found. The Ministry of Health and Welfare in association with police officials and the Korea Suicide Prevention Center said yesterday that [...]
ULSAN, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of taxi passengers heading to Ulsan Bridge to commit suicide continues to rise, local police authorities have asked taxi companies in the region to refuse to accept passengers who choose the bridge as their destination. Yesterday, the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency sent an official document explaining [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Three out of 10 people rushed to the emergency room after attempting suicide were found to have tried to take their own life on previous occasions. Moreover, a portion of these people were thinking of making another suicide attempt within the next six months. The Ministry of Health and [...]
SEOUL, Jun, 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A former employee of SsangYong Motor who worked at the company’s Pyeongtaek factory before being laid off has been found dead in what appears to have been the 32nd suicide death by former SsangYong employees after the carmaker instigated massive layoffs in 2009. Around 3:50 p.m. yesterday, a former [...]
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 [...]