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■ [ace나그네] Elderly suicides 'rise sharply' (2008-05-13 09:43)

What do you think about government's solution in this situation?

The suicide rate for Korean senior citizens increased drastically in a decade. Social experts attribute the elderly suicide rate to the country' decaying social infrastructure, in which the younger generation no longer feels responsible for taking care of their elderly parents. In that, Korea has the highest elderly suicide rate among 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

So the government has set aside 500 billion won ($501 million) for welfare programs for elderly people, and plans to air a TV advertisement from Tuesday calling on Koreans to take a more active role in supporting the senior citizens.

 

(cite from : The Korea Herold, May 13, 2008 TUESDAY, Page 3, National section, Elderly suicides 'rise sharply')
 
What do you think about government's solution in this situation?

This certainly is not going to help. What is this? Government actually thinks that it can reduce the cases of suicide by putting in some commercials in between show programs? Do the politicians think that $501million would even be enough considering how many people we have in Korea? This is not going to work. I think that politicians should dig in deeper, and get rid of any factors that could result in this sad situation of committing suicides. They could, for an instance, pay more attention to education and support schools so that teachers could teach youngsters better about respects with more decent equipments. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />