Citation

Suicidol. Online 2015; 6(1): 63-73.

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(Copyright © 2015, The author(s), Publisher Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy)

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Abstract

Suicide in South Korea is one of the most serious societal issues. While the general public's suicide rates have been continuously increasing over the last 30 years and largely concerned as a societal issue, majority of previous studies found that public figure's suicide has an impact on increasing public's suicide rate. However, insufficient attention has been given to entertainers' suicide themselves. In the current study, I attempt to discover particular patterns in the individual characteristics of these entertainers and their causation. By using publicly available profiles and an archival database of electronic news articles, I conduct a collective multiple-case profiling. According to the analysis, young female actresses are the predominant group in which suicides are committed, and no comedians have committed suicide. Furthermore, the news media have postulated the possible causation mainly as psychological depression, which is caused by two circumstances: job-related stress and cyber bullying. Moreover, possible regulation suggestions are made accordingly.

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Language: en