SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study on the general public’s opinion of suicide revealed that people who attempt suicide are considered to be “immoral”, “selfish”, and “having no filial piety”. Despite the high suicide rates in South Korea, participation and use of mental health services is uncommon. Observers believe those who contemplate suicide [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The average suicide rate among South Koreans is 2.6 times higher than that of the European Union, according to new statistics. According to Eurostat, the EU’s official statistics institute, 58,000 of 4.9 million Europeans who died in 2014 took their own lives, accounting for 1.2 percent of all deaths [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of 7 temporary workers have experienced depression, almost twice as high as those holding regular positions, a study showed Tuesday. The prevalence for depression was 13.1 percent among irregular workers, whose job conditions are far less favorable than for permanent workers and have to constantly worry about [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a modest improvement over the past five years, South Korea still remains among the countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, a new WHO report has revealed. The South Korean suicide rate is 28.4 per 100,000 individuals, ranking fourth among 183 countries surveyed in the 2017 [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by the mental health experts at the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital revealed that high cholesterol levels can lead to higher risks of suicide and depression, particularly among middle-aged men and women between 45 and 64 years of age. Based on the 2014 [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Depression and suicide, which cost South Korean society a fortune both socially and economically, have been linked to a lack of greenery, according to a recent survey conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW). The annual community health survey conducted by a team led by professor Min Gyeong-bok [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Teenage students who consider themselves to be economically disadvantaged experience stress, depression and thoughts of suicide significantly more often than those who are better off, according to a report published yesterday. The study conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) on the mental health and health [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Online threads promoting fake identities and suicide are on the rise with nearly 1,500 cases reported so far this year, the government has found. More than 1,150 instances of fake identities and 276 cases of online promotion for suicide were reported during the first quarter of this year, the [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top-three life insurers – Samsung, Hanwha and Kyobo – have decided to pay all overdue suicide claims, giving in to regulators’ punitive steps, industry officials said Thursday. Samsung will pay a total of 174 billion won (US$152 million) in respect of its policyholders who committed suicide on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s financial regulator on Thursday ordered three insurance firms to halt some of their operations as a punitive measure over their overdue suicide insurance benefits. The three insurers — Samsung Life Insurance, Hanwha Life Insurance and Kyobo Life Insurance — have been criticized for failing to pay out [...]