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Citation

Sohn K. Death Stud. 2016; 41(5): 303-310.

Affiliation

a Department of Economics , Konkuk University , Seoul , South Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/07481187.2016.1271837

PMID

27982742

Abstract

South Korea exhibited the highest crude suicide rate in the world. To better understand this phenomenon, we analyzed all suicides in South Korea from 1997 to 2015 and charted the trend in suicide methods by sex. Over time, both sexes changed from hanging for suicide to drug/pesticide poisoning. Gassing was hardly used in the beginning, but its recent gain in use is noteworthy. Including undetermined deaths did not change the main results. We regressed hanging on demographics and found that hanging was particularly chosen by ever-married men of prime working age with a respectable level of education.


Language: en

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