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Korea: Suicide ‘leading cause of death among teenagers’

Korea: Suicide ‘leading cause of death among teenagers’

By Tue, Apr 24, 2012 1:13PM UTC View Comments Korea: Suicide ‘leading cause of death among teenagers’

Original article in Korean is at this link. A study has found that suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers in our country. In the past five years 101 elementary, middle, and high school students have taken their own lives, or about two deaths per month. On the 24th the Center for Freedom...

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Suicide rates rising in South Korea

By Tue, Sep 20, 2011 11:52AM UTC View Comments Suicide rates rising in South Korea

I spotted two articles today about suicide rates rising among certain demographics in Korea. The first article examines the suicide rate among the current baby-boom generation of those in their 50s. In the 1970s and 1980s men in their 50s, who were the driving force of industrialization and the pillars of their families, increasingly took...

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