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ABSTRACT
South Korea exhibited the highest crude suicide rate in the world. To better understand this phenomenon, the author analyzed all suicides in South Korea from 1997 to 2015 and charted the trend in suicide methods by gender. Over time, both genders rapidly chose hanging for suicide at the expense of drug/pesticide poisoning. Gassing was hardly used in the beginning, but its recent gain in use is noteworthy. Including undetermined deaths did not change the main results. The author regressed hanging on demographics and found that hanging was particularly chosen by ever-married men of prime working age with a respectable level of education.
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to Lillian Range and the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.
Notes
1The government artificially created Sejong Special City (a single region) by carving a small area out of Chungcheongnam-do in 2012. Considering its short history and original constituents, we included the city to Chungcheongnam-do.