Two high school girls suicide themselves tying their hands and legs together with strings of sneakers because of endless teasing at school.
Last Saturday Choi and Cho, seventeen-year-old high school girls who were best friends kill themselves by jumping off the top of the building in Pyeong Taek. Directly after the incident, they moved to hospital, but both of them passed away on that day and Sunday evening.
The police said there is no written will, but they found two empty So-Ju bottles which they might they drink on the rooftop.
Before suiciding, Choi sent text message to her Mom many times.
" Please let me withraw from my school." " I'm really afraid of classmates. I don't want to go to school."
A recent investigation disclosed the fact that they had had an argument with classmates badly on last Thursday. One of their another classmate A said, " They would be left out in the cold.
It was far difficult for them to endure organized teasing, because they were too sensitive and introspective to reveal their feelings."
"Though her school record was not good, she had a good nature. If school had showed more interests in students' school life, this tradigy would not have happened." The bereaved family of Choi insisted.
In case of Choi, her family already visited school last semester to address a protest about teasing many times. The school side has started fact finding about Choi and Cho's school life. And police will inqury about it, if immediate cause of this suiciding reveals teasing.
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This is a real tragedy. We hear about this too often, especially in Korea. Why is the suicide rate so high in Korea? A 2005 report indicated that Korea had the highest suicide rate among OECD countries and a 2006 report indicated that suicide was the 4th leading cause of death in Korea. (http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=390145)
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Of course, growing suicidng rate is terrible situation. But what I really want to say through this article is serious stuation of teasing in school, unconcern and late reaction of that school. I think lack of communication between teacher and students made this tradgy. And it is true high suicing rate is tradegy, too. I think a sense of alienation in modern society cause suicding. In the past, the society was cooperative, but it changed rapidly. People don't care others anymore, and it causes those tragedies. Anyway, people need to communicate more.
ReplyDeleteThere's no doubt about that. Though we have the technical means to communicate more than any time in our history, we seem to have lost the social ability to communicate. Teachers are often the best connection between the world of adults and the world of children.
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