Stunned young South Korea statistics No, ask to stay in the world in 2020, up 40%.
Stunned young South Korea statistics – South China Morning Post The report catches South Korea’s worrisome social wave. When the record of young South Korean women suicide increases to a record. Of these, a 40 percent increase in the number of young women in their 20s, in contrast to the decline in male statistics.
The COVID situation is expected to exacerbate the problems faced by Korean women. But experts say there are other factors. Leading to suicide from work
Women wearing face masks walk past a banner promoting a social distancing campaign displayed on the wall of Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Heo Ran
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The South Korean National Police said the suicide rate in South Korea is twice the average among OECD or developed countries. And suicide is the leading cause of death in South Koreans in their 20s and 30s.
According to statistics, in the first half of 2020, 1,924 South Korean women killed themselves, an increase of more than 7 percent from the same period last year.
And even more among young women in their 20s, the suicide rate increased by more than 40 percent, of which 296 people committed suicide during the same period. It is wrong with men whose statistics are declining every month from June to September 2020.
Women in traditional clothing and face masks to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus look at a mobile phone at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea’s well-known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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The famous Seoul suicide case surfaced in the media in November, a 27-year-old woman was laid off as a flight attendant due to the COVID outbreak and three other women who were present. In his 20s was found unconscious in a hill. The situation clearly met with online chat to commit suicide squad.
Suicide problems among young women in their 20s are so severe that the South Korean government now officially classifies women in their 20s and 30s as the risk of suicide.
Last year, the South Korean government set up a commission on the prevention of suicide, headed by Prime Minister Chung Se-kyun and experts from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the Ministry of Health and Education.
A woman holds her smartphone up to the snowy trees in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Although many experts say COVID is the cause, including the plague-related joblessness, puts pressure on young people. But another expert said the problems faced by young South Korea And especially the young woman is more complicated
Mr Chung, Prime Minister of South Korea, stated that It is hard to say what effect COVID has had on countries with one of the highest suicide rates in the world anyway. And noted that the suicide rate has increased in decades. Which is at the same high rate after the Asian financial crisis 1997-1998 and the domestic financial crisis in 2013.
A woman takes a selfie as her friend adjusts her makeup in a pink muhly grass field at a park in Hanam, South Korea, October 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo
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A survey this week found that 1 in 4 youths have committed suicide at least once since the COVID outbreak. This is more than ten times that of two years ago, said Nam Jae Wook, a researcher at the Korean Institute for Education and Summer Training. Identified as being at a dangerous level And that mental health problems among young people are a problem that demands public attention amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
Another expert said that young people are more vulnerable to cutting jobs in many service-intensive and part-time industries. Including women’s lifestyle or socializing are affected by spacing and lockdown measures.
Women are more likely to be affected than men because they are more likely to work part-time in hotels, retail, food and catering services. Which was severely affected by COVID Moreover, many women carry the same burden in their homes.
At the same time, a stay-at-home order turned out to be that a number of housewives were in prison with their fierce husbands.
The cause of suicide is superior to the virus. As statistics show, prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, 13,799 South Koreans committed suicide in 2020, an average of 26.9 out of every 100,000 people, twice the nation’s average suicide rate.
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It was a record higher from 26.6 in 2018 and 24.3 in 2017, and put the South Korean government at risk of missing the target in 2018, pledging to lower the suicide rate to 17 people per 100,000 people internally. Therefore, COVID did not provide an explanation for why women in their 20s accounted for nearly a third of all suicide attempts in the country between January and August in 2020.
Why are women more vulnerable than other groups?
Mr. Kim Yong Taek, an expert at the South Korean Women’s Institute studying women’s suicide It argues that the economy is the single biggest factor that causes women to commit suicide. According to their research, it was found that Women are more likely than men to experience health problems due to the 2008 global financial crisis.
Women, as opposed to men, tend to have a lack of money and social resources. This is essential to good health, making women more vulnerable to problems not only caused by COVID, but also by every economic downturn.
Not just because South Korea pays the largest difference in wages between women and men among OECD countries. Which is a developed country But it also includes factors that the majority of part-time jobs in the country and low-quality work are pushed to women. Giving women less working hours than women need In addition, there must also be caution in imitating suicidal K-pop stars.
For example, Moon Ha Eun, a 24-year-old makeup artist in Seoul, feels different from a male-dominated workplace. “As soon as I started work I want to be a man. ”They were told by their employers to keep losing weight and being told to dress nicely.
Women walks underneath Christmas illuminations in front of a department store amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Seoul, South Korea, November 26, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
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At the same time, employers commented that not wearing makeup to work is inappropriate for women. The woman was already suffering from depression. They also need to see a psychiatrist to treat eating disorders and insomnia.
From the meeting of the Suicide Prevention Policy Commission. The government is committed to strengthening women’s counseling services while providing welfare to women who are on unpaid leave or on the hunt for freelance or internship opportunities in the hopes of alleviating suicide problems.
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