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Season Premiere

Asia Insight: Season 6

6x01 Preventing Elderly Suicide: South Korea
TV-PG

  • 2017-01-06T10:30:00Z on NHK
  • 28m
  • Japan
  • English, Japanese
  • Documentary, News
Suicide in South Korea is a serious and widespread problem with the country having the highest suicide rate for an OECD member state. One in three persons who commit suicide are over the age of 65. Most of these elderly individuals have no job and live separately from their families. The Seongbuk district in Seoul has been taking a progressive approach to work on elderly suicide prevention since 2010. In this episode, we take a look at how the local government office and resident volunteers are working together to save lives.
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