I remember a scene from the Vietnam War documentary Hearts and Minds, where the interviewer is speaking with a former Air Force pilot, a young bearded country boy living in the backwoods somewhere, maybe trying to forget what he’d seen – and done. At one point during the interview a man behind the camera asks, [...]
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A string of articles appeared the other day in Korean media, timed with World Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday, reporting that Korea ranked highest among OECD member states in terms of its suicide rate. Commentators expressed bitterness over the grim statistics. the suicide rate in South Korea surged by 90.8 percent in the 1997-2007 period… [...]
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