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462 Students Commit Suicide Over 5 Years
Four hundred and sixty-two primary and secondary school students have killed themselves over the past five years.

The number of students who lost their lives from school accidents has been on the rise: 18,941 in 2001, 19,676 in 2002, 22,613 in 2003 and 29,959 in 2004. School accidents account for about 73.3 percent of total student deaths.
By Chung Ah-young, Korea Times (October 2, 2005)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200510/kt2005100217090510230.htm

[schwa]

The death of any young person is tragic, but the figures you cite are seriously skewed. The article in full details 3,586 student deaths, from all causes, since 2001, but the obviously erroneous final paragraph comes up with over 80,000 deaths by accident alone!

Even a cursory reading suggests that figure is wacked. Why promulgate a mistake?



By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter
Four hundred and sixty-two primary and secondary school students have killed themselves over the past five years.

According to a report released by Education Committee under the National Assembly, 3,586 students have lost their lives from suicide, disease and accidents since 2001.

The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development Sunday submitted the report to the committee under the National Assembly��s audit.

Over the past five years, 2,269 students lost their lives in after-school activities, while 755 students died of disease.

The number of students who committed suicide was 462 while 100 students were killed while on school activities.

The figure for student suicides comes as Korea��s suicides hit a record high of 12,000 in 2004 as more people took their own lives due to the prolonged economic hardship, according to the National Statistical Office (NSO).

According to the NSO, suicide ranked fourth as the cause of death as 25.2 out of 100,000 people took their own lives, up five ranks from ninth 10 years ago.

In the 2,269 after-school deaths, 1,161 students were killed in traffic accidents, followed by 513 from drowning, 139 from falls and 75 from burns.

The number of students who lost their lives from school accidents has been on the rise: 18,941 in 2001, 19,676 in 2002, 22,613 in 2003 and 29,959 in 2004. School accidents account for about 73.3 percent of total student deaths.

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[Yu_Bum_suk]

The stats might be screwed up, but anyone working in Korean schools can see the obrious - the pressures must really drive up suicide rate (there was no figure on attempted suicides), and school safety can be appalling. Look at some hogwans - 100+ kids crammed into the fifth or sixth floor of a building with rubbish clogging the only stairwell and no fire escapes. The 'terraces' on the side of the soccer pitch at my school are so steep that someone who slipped at the top could easily fall all the way to the bottom, getting battered by huge concrete steps the whole way down.

I'm sure not surprised about the number of students dying in accidents. I'm surprised more of them don't get run over going to and from school.

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[TheUrbanMyth]

I never said your answers were negative only your posts.


Cheer up it's not all that bad! HAND

[Ya-ta Boy]

Accidents: I'm waiting to see someone slip out of their slippers and go tumbling down the stairs at school. Mainly me. I've learned why so many Koreans shuffle their feet.

RR: Yes, he is known for posting the most negative things he can find about Korea. It seems to be his mission in life.

[thursdays child]

There were always loads of 'accidents' happening when i was in high school, but due to different things..... drink driving, doing something stupid, playing rugby, drowning and suicide. I wonder how the stats compare???? Teenagers have pressure and problems in most walks of life. All the causes in all the cultures need addressing.