The headlines are regular and morbid: a shamed celebrity or politician takes her own life, a student leaps off a bridge after being rejected from a first-class university, and an ailing grandfather commits suicide to relieve the financial burden on the family. South Koreans are under enormous pressure to succeed at work, school and in relationships, and to care for their families, fueling an abysmal suicide rate that is the highest in the OECD group of developed countries. About 40 Koreans commit suicide every day, making it the nation’s fourth-highest cause of death in 2012. globalpost/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/south-korea/140313/why-koreans-are-killing-themselves-droves
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:06:02 +0000
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