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Smee
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 Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:17 pm Post subject: South Korea leads OECD in suicides |
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Korea has the highest suicide rate among all the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, according to a report by the Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday.
An average 24.3 people per 100,000 die every year from suicide in Korea, followed by an average of 21 in Hungary, 19.4 in Japan and 16.7 in Finland. France and the United States saw an average of 14.2 and 10.1 people die respectively from suicide annually. |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918314
More links and commentary here: http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2010/03/south-korean-suicide-rate-higheset-in.html
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| South Korea was in a similar position in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. |
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Olivencia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Givent hat the top 4 nations are Korea, Japan, Hungary, and Finland clearly the cause is speaking an Ural-Altaic language. |
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Olivencia
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there then a correlation as to how thoughts and mental concepts that are expressed in these particualr languages related to this kind of action? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Here would be a more TELLING statistic:
Suicide rate of people who go to SKY + KAIST, versus the rest of the population.
I'm willing to put money that people go to SKY + KAIST are far less liekly to kill themselves, then people who didn't.
Blame it on Korea's emphasis on where you get your education, not what you learned. |
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eamo
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Here would be a more TELLING statistic:
Suicide rate of people who go to SKY + KAIST, versus the rest of the population.
I'm willing to put money that people go to SKY + KAIST are far less liekly to kill themselves, then people who didn't.
Blame it on Korea's emphasis on where you get your education, not what you learned. |
Agreed.
Koreans have developed a horribly cut and dry system of producing winners and losers..............a bit more respect (and pay) given to those who didn't go to a SKY university would help with the suicide figures.
And young Korean people developing the gumption to tell their parents to back off when they get too pushy would help too. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: South Korea leads OECD in suicides |
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| Smee wrote: |
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Korea has the highest suicide rate among all the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, according to a report by the Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday.
An average 24.3 people per 100,000 die every year from suicide in Korea, followed by an average of 21 in Hungary, 19.4 in Japan and 16.7 in Finland. France and the United States saw an average of 14.2 and 10.1 people die respectively from suicide annually. |
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918314
More links and commentary here: http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2010/03/south-korean-suicide-rate-higheset-in.html
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| South Korea was in a similar position in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. |
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I'll see your Ministry of Health and Welfare and raise you a World Health Organization.
According to this link Korea has the ninth highest suicide rate in the world in 2008 while Japan (a member of the OECD) is sixth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
And before anybody complains about a Wiki article they are using data from the WHO which is a fairly reputable organization.
Here some info for 2007 again from the WHO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_suicide_rate
Both Hungary and Japan (in that order) beat out Korea for the top spot. |
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drkalbi
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| reading this story has really bummed me out. I think I'm going to jump...... |
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Fox
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| Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Olivencia wrote: |
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Givent hat the top 4 nations are Korea, Japan, Hungary, and Finland clearly the cause is speaking an Ural-Altaic language. |
I know you're probably joking (and I think more linguistists would disagree than agree that Korean is an Altaic language, though that might be changing), but I'd actually be pretty interested in a study that mapped various behavioral and cultural trends to various language families. Some interesting correlations might pop up. |
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UknowsI
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Here would be a more TELLING statistic:
Suicide rate of people who go to SKY + KAIST, versus the rest of the population.
I'm willing to put money that people go to SKY + KAIST are far less liekly to kill themselves, then people who didn't.
Blame it on Korea's emphasis on where you get your education, not what you learned. |
I still think the suicide rates are pretty high in the top unis. I don't have any numbers, but studying 80 hours a week is not good for mental health. When they then lose their scholarships, fail to graduate and so on, they often take it quite tough. Every year someone in my dorm kills him/her self, but I guess it might still be less than other schools. |
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cj1976
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not surprised by the high suicide rates. Korea is ultra-conservative and often joyless. People here are under so much pressure to conform to certain prescribed ideals, and failure to meet these expectations is unthinkable. No wonder they drink like fish, smoke like chimneys and kill themselves. |
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mugen13
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| 24/100 000 doesn't seem that high. |
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