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by matthewbauer 591 days ago
Not just young women, but older people too (~64%). Seems hard to believe they literally think it's hell, without serious societal breakdown. Are immigration and suicide sky high?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_South_Korea

> South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate in the world and the highest among OECD countries. The elderly in South Korea are at the highest risk of suicide, but deaths from teen suicide have been rising since 2010. In 2022 suicide caused more than half of all deaths among South Koreans in their twenties. It is the leading cause of death for those between the age of 10 and 39, in line with most OECD countries.

Shouldn't it be even higher if you think your country is literally hell? Maybe they have a more optimistic idea of hell than me. I guess that squares with 3% more believing it's hell than wants to leave.

I still think this survey doesn't make sense, or at least something is lost in transactional.

Additional citations:

https://www.womenlink.or.kr/minwoo_actions/20828

In the past nine years, at least 824 women had been killed and 602 more put at risk of death due to intimate partner violence (IPV)

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1...

A 2021 study further found that one in three Korean women have experienced domestic violence, with intimate partners responsible for 46 percent of these cases.

I wonder how these rates compare to the US?