The statue was positioned on Mapo Bridge, Seoul capital to stop folks from committing suicide – Picture: MEDIUM
Yonhap information company cited knowledge from the Ministry of Well being and Welfare of South Korea as saying that the entire variety of deaths by suicide from January to Could this yr in South Korea was 6,375, a rise of 10.1% over the identical interval final yr.
In response to the South Korean authorities’s evaluation, elements together with social stress, financial burden, and psychological issues similar to despair and nervousness following the COVID-19 pandemic have straight and not directly affected the nation’s folks, pushing the suicide charge up.
As well as, the variety of deaths as a result of “Butterfly Impact” (Butterfly Impact), or the “aftershocks” left behind after a suicide happens. Accordingly, inside seven to eight weeks after a star dedicated suicide in late 2023, the Korean medical group witnessed a spike within the variety of suicides.
Thus far, South Korea’s suicide charge stays one of many highest among the many Group for Financial Cooperation and Growth (OECD) international locations and the world as a complete.
Nonetheless, this quantity will proceed to extend steadily within the first half of 2024.
Confronted with this essential scenario, the South Korean authorities and personal organizations held a gathering on August 6 to debate how to answer the suicide drawback, because the variety of suicide deaths in 2024 is anticipated to extend in comparison with 2023.
Key authorities duties embrace selling suicide prevention messages, enhancing suicide reporting procedures, implementing necessary suicide prevention schooling, and enhancing identification of high-risk suicide teams.
Together with authorities efforts, personal organizations additionally want to advertise the unfold of optimistic messages and coordinate with the seven main non secular sects in Korea to arrange suicide prevention tasks and campaigns concentrating on younger folks.
