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Mapo Bridge suicides

Mapo Bridge suicides

Why Koreans are killing themselves in droves

SEOUL, South Korea — The headlines are regular and morbid: a shamed celebrity or politician takes her own life, a student leaps off a bridge after being rejected from a first-class university, and an ailing grandfather commits suicide to relieve the financial burden on the family.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 13, 2014

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