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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: 3 girls kill themselves... :( |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/11/116_123602.html
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Three teenage girls jumped to their deaths from an apartment building in Busan, police said Wednesday.
Their bodies were found around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the rooftop of a five-story building in Gwangan-dong, where they fell after jumping from the top of a 15-story apartment building, according to police.
Police found bottles of soju and the girls� belongings on the rooftop of the apartment building. Footage of the CCTV inside the apartment elevator showed the three girls going up to the rooftop several hours before they were found.
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Very sad. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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What a tragedy.
Part of the article read:
Teenage suicide has risen as a serious social issue, as an increasing number of young people in the nation are choosing to end their lives.
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It also read that one of them suffered depression. How many more dead will it take for more people to confront this problem head on? |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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How many more dead will it take for more people to confront this problem head on? |
Not the best of phrases in these circumstances! |
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newb
Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Location: Korea
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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It's very sad that they choose to end their lives. RIP.
I hate to say it but Korea is one big pot of pressure cooker about to explode. They need to smile more. |
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Titus
Joined: 19 May 2012
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Zackback wrote: |
It also read that one of them suffered depression. How many more dead will it take for more people to confront this problem head on? |
What are they supposed to do, exactly? Asians have been engaging in high-pressure examination culture for ages. I mean for God's sake, I was just reading an old Korean tale called the 춘향전, and the main character is a young man studying for the state examinations, and whose ultimate success is gained through passing them with the highest marks. Whatever the lesson is there, it's certainly not, "Hey, go spend your childhood playing in a meadow." This is what East Asians are inclined towards, probably at a genetic level. You're not going to turn that around with your soppy, Western-style "awareness campaigns" or whatever you have in mind. |
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JustinC
Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Location: We Are The World!
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Titus
Joined: 19 May 2012
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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I think you mixed up the posters. I want kids to play and zack wants awareness.
It may be genetic, caused by generations of resources allocated to the best test takers. Seems like a waste of life. But we gotta compete! |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't mix things up, I merely merged your cases together, because really, you're making the same core point in different clothing: East Asians should stop being East Asians.
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Seems like a waste of life. |
One size doesn't fit all. Tons of things people do seem like a waste of life to me. |
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Titus
Joined: 19 May 2012
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think it would kill them to turn down the crazy a bit. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Location: Kyungbuk
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Fox,
East Asians can be happier East Asians not suicidal East Asians. |
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darkjedidave
Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Location: Shanghai/Seoul
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Wasn't there a number of group suicides in Korea a few years back, where people would meet in chat rooms and agree to kill themselves when the met in person?
What a crazy world we live in.... |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Zackback wrote: |
Fox,
East Asians can be happier East Asians not suicidal East Asians. |
Maybe they can't. Besides, the notion that happiness is an end in itself is vapid. Great for selling counselling sessions and self-help books to dupes, but of very little real substance. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Zackback wrote: |
It also read that one of them suffered depression. How many more dead will it take for more people to confront this problem head on? |
Infinite amount. Korea will not confront the problem until society itself realizes that depression and suicide are mental health issues and that mental health issues are not issues of immorality or shame. |
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Dave Chance
Joined: 30 May 2011
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 7:15 am Post subject: |
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We took a closer look at this issue in a class I teach.
Turns out the rate of suicide doubled after the IMF came to town and drastically "restructured" things in favor of upper management (jobs cut or converted to part-time with no benefits, lower salaries, etc).
Also seems George Soros (chums with IMF) significantly contributed to the '97 economic crisis in Asia by buying and then abrubtly selling huge quantities of Thai bhat. |
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