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Korea has a notorious reputation when it comes to people taking their own lives,... with
its suicide rate the highest in the OECD. New data released by Statistics Korea on Thursday
shows... the number of suicides has tripled in the past two decades... to 28 people per
one-hundred thousand in 2012... from eight... per one-hundred thousand in 1992.
Korea's suicide rate has also risen at the fastest pace in the OECD, jumping by over
one-hundred percent from 2000 to 2010. In contrast,... Japan's suicide rate, in the
same period, was at negative five percent. The data also shows the one in five Koreans
who have committed suicide in the last 20 years did so due to financial difficulties.