South Korea to criminalise suicide pacts

SEOUL: South Korea is to make organising a suicide pact a criminal offence, officials said Tuesday (Jan 23), as the government seeks to reduce one of the world's highest rates of self-killing. The suicide rate in Asia's fourth-largest economy has increased sharply since 2000 to 25.6 a year per 100,000 people, twice the average for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries.
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