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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:56 am Post subject: South Korea ranked fourth in |
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South Korea ranked fourth in the suicide rate among the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the rate has doubled last year over a decade ago.
1. Hungary
2. Finland
3. Japan
4. Korea
The number of people killed on the road in Korea was the second highest among OECD nations with the adjusted figure of 20.1 deaths, based on the OECD standard, after Greece (20.2 deaths).
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200309/kt2003092517325410220.htm |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Finland??? I'm surprised. I guess I always thought Finland to be a pretty mellow country and also ripe with social programs that would deter anyone depressed from killing themselves.
Anyways, I just don't see Finland as being too radically different from say Sweden.
But thn of course, there is that issue of 6 weeks of darkness to contend with too....
Any more information on this, besides just the table? |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Katydid,
You're right about the 6 months or so of darkness. The nations above the Arctic Circle have a high suicide rate, along with alchohol problems. It's probably the lack of sunlight that affects people in strange ways. Just a guess.
Harpeau |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:10 am Post subject: |
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It won't be long for before Koreans will finally be able to shout that much anticipated phrase: "We're #1!"
I guess it really is true- you should be careful what you wish for... |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Hungarians and Finns are supposed to be close ethnically. Something about the Huns migrating there during the middle ages.
Notice how they are 1 and 2 in suicide rates for the world. I'm sure an anthropologist would have an interesting take on this. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:06 am Post subject: Re: South Korea ranked fourth in |
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| Real Reality wrote: |
| South Korea ranked fourth in the suicide rate among the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
How many countries are a member of this group?
One really strange thing is there is alot of linguistic similarities between the four nations mentioned.. Hungary, Finnish, and Korean are all very distantly related.. (origins to the Ural Mountains of Russia).. all having almost absolutely nothing in common with any other language in the world... (well, Mongolia is on that list as well).. but anyhow, they all went in different directions linguistically.. but apparently, there is a remote very distant connection between those languages compared to anywhere else.. (Japanese isn't included in that group - however its extremely grammatically related to Korean).. Turkish is also remotely connected somehow as well.. anyhow just as an aside..
I forget where I read that.. but I very briefly began to study Hungarian once.. and found out how isolated it was in the European world.. and Finnish had the same remoteness.. and they were tied back into the Ural-mountains in Central Asia as well. In addition, a long time ago when I went to Hungary, I met some Koreans who were telling me how it was easier for them to learn Hungarian than for other people to learn Hungarian - which is generally well-know in the European world to be nearly impossible.
(If anyone differs or confirms any of this please let me know.. as I'm just running on memory and not any confirmed sources to back any of this on).. |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:52 pm Post subject: 30 |
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Tiger Beer wrote,
"How many countries are a member of this group?"
There are 30 countries.
Twenty countries originally signed the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on 14 December 1960. Since then a further ten countries have become members of the Organisation. The Member countries of the Organisation and the dates on which they deposited their instruments of ratification are:
1. AUSTRALIA: 7 June 1971
2. AUSTRIA: 29 September 1961
3. BELGIUM: 13 September 1961
4. CANADA: 10 April 1961
5. CZECH REPUBLIC: 21 December 1995
6. DENMARK: 30 May 1961
7. FINLAND: 28 January 1969
8. FRANCE: 7 August 1961
9. GERMANY: 27 September 1961
10. GREECE: 27 September 1961
11. HUNGARY: 7 May 1996
12. ICELAND: 5 June 1961
13. IRELAND: 17 August 1961
14. ITALY: 29 March 1962
15. JAPAN: 28 April 1964
16. KOREA: 12 December 1996
17. LUXEMBOURG: 7 December 1961
18. MEXICO: 18 May 1994
19. NETHERLANDS: 13 November 1961
20. NEW ZEALAND: 29 May 1973
21. NORWAY: 4 July 1961
22. POLAND: 22 November 1996
23. PORTUGAL: 4 August 1961
24. SLOVAK REPUBLIC: 14 December 2000
25. SPAIN: 3 August 1961
26. SWEDEN: 28 September 1961
27. SWITZERLAND: 28 September 1961
28. TURKEY: 2 August 1961
29. UNITED KINGDOM: 2 May 1961
30. UNITED STATES: 12 April 1961
http://www.oecd.org/document/58/0,2340,en_2649_34483_1889402_1_1_1_1,00.html |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: South Korea ranked fourth in |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
(If anyone differs or confirms any of this please let me know.. as I'm just running on memory and not any confirmed sources to back any of this on).. |
I've heard pretty much the same thing a few times, I think it's the Ural-altaic (sp?) language group. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:00 pm Post subject: record high |
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Rate of suicide reaches a record high in Korea
More Koreans are taking their own lives than dying from auto accidents, as the suicide rate hit a record level last year, according to the National Statistical Office. The agency reported yesterday that 8,631 people killed themselves last year; a figure slightly higher than the 8,569 suicides at the height of the Asian financial crisis in 1998.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200309/26/200309260203558039900090409041.html |
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