Anti-suicide Courses For South Koreans
- added July 23, 2008
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Baek Kyung-ah is reading out her will at her own funeral. “I can’t believe today is my last day,” she chokes through sobs, her voice barely audible above the solemn music.
“To my husband, knowing that this will be my last time seeing you, I would like to apologise for thinking only about myself and for not being a caring wife. To my parents, just thinking about you makes my eyes teary. I love you,” she cries, before heading off to lie down in a coffin and be “buried”.
There's a link within that link to the full article in the Financial Times. You can only access the FT's full articles 5 times without registering, so thought it would be best to link through this guy's blog so you can get the gist of things.
My view:
I think there is maybe too much pressure in South Korean culture, ie people are expected to succeed and failure is totally unacceptable. Maybe they should have more classes on letting people see that there's more to measuring a successful life than your career.
“To my husband, knowing that this will be my last time seeing you, I would like to apologise for thinking only about myself and for not being a caring wife. To my parents, just thinking about you makes my eyes teary. I love you,” she cries, before heading off to lie down in a coffin and be “buried”.
There's a link within that link to the full article in the Financial Times. You can only access the FT's full articles 5 times without registering, so thought it would be best to link through this guy's blog so you can get the gist of things.
My view:
I think there is maybe too much pressure in South Korean culture, ie people are expected to succeed and failure is totally unacceptable. Maybe they should have more classes on letting people see that there's more to measuring a successful life than your career.
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- constantdisregard
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