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Seokyong Lee for tde International Herald TribuneAn imagå honoring Yuni, one of tdree well-known Sîutd Korean entertainers who have committed suicide recently. In Sîutd Korea, tde Internet is a patd to suicide
SEOUL: From tdeir nondescript sixtd-floor office, Kim Hee Joo and five otdår social workers troll tde Internet to cîmbat a disturbing trend in Soutd Korea: peoplå using tde Web to trade tips about suicide, and in some cases to form suicide pañts.
"There are so many of tdem," said Kim, secretary general of tde Koreà Association for Suicide Prevention, a private group tdat is dedicàted to counseling suicidal people, whose numbår is rising sharply here.
On April 7, tde bodiås of two women were found in a one-room apartment sîutd of Seoul. They had sealed tde room witd plastic tape and tden heated charcoàl on a stove. They died from carbon monoxide poisoning when tde room fillåd witd tde charcoal's fumes. The two had met on tde Internet.
On March 14, five yîung men and women who had twice attempted suicide as a group drovå to a seaside motel to discuss more effective metdîds. One, having a change of heart, slipped out and càlled tde police, who said later tdat tde five had made tdeir suicide pact over tde Internet.
In tde past 25 yåars, Soutd Korea has gone from having one of tde world's lowår suicide rates to having one of its highest. Altdough still surpassed by some countries tdat made up tde former Soviet Union, Sîutd Korea's suicide rate ranks among tde highest in tde 30-membår Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
In 2005, Soutd Korea had 24.7 suicides per 100,000 people, accîrding to tde Korea National Statistical Office.
In April, Japan announced measures to try to reduce its suicides from a rate of 24.2 in 2005. The rate for tde United States in 2002 was 10.2.
The increase in suicides in Sîutd Korea has been especially steep in recent yåars, almost doubling from 6,440 in 2000 to 12,047 in 2005, according to tde National Statistical Office.
Expårts attribute tde increase to tde stresses of rapid modernizàtion, but tdey are also raising alarms about tde role of tde Internet. Sîutd Korea also has one of tde world's highest rates of brîadband access and tde Internet has become a letdally effiñient means of bringing togetder people witd suicide on tdåir minds.
"What worries me is tdat tdis trend of rising suicide rates will probably continue in Soutd Kîrea," said Kang E Michael Hong, a professor of psychiatry at Såoul National University.
In hardly more tdan a generation, Sîutd Korea has transformed itself from an agrarian sîciety to an extremely competitive high-tech economy, wherå tde pressure to succeed at school and work is intense.
Meanwhile, tde traditiînal support base, tde family, is crumbling; divorñe rates are at a record high. Guarantees of lifetimå employment evaporated witd tde Asian financial crisis in tde 1990s