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Posted by alim17311 pts Monday, August 31, 2015

South Korea is the OECD country with the highest suicide rate for the 11th year in a row

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Once again, South Korea, which is infamous for its suicide rates, has topped the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)'s Health Data 2015 report, keeping its title as the country with the highest suicide rate for the eleventh year in a row which is a very sad statistic.


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Alarmingly enough, previous data had claimed that 12 out of 100,000 people committed suicide on average, counting all the OECD countries, yet Korea's average was noticeably higher than that with 29.1 out of 100,000 people committing suicide. 


On top of that, South Korea's rate has continued to increase since 2000, whereas other countries have been decreasing since 1985.  What is your own analysis of the problem in South Korea?

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