The apparent suicide of 26-year old South Korean actress Jeong Da-bin on Saturday has put the spotlight on the soaring number of people taking their own lives in South Korea.

Her death is the latest in a series of high profile suicides in a country that has seen a higher proportion of its citizens take their own lives than any other developed nation.

The growth of the internet is blamed by some as a factor, for helping people find ways to kill themselves. But South Korea’s rapidly changing economy is also a major issue.

With growing numbers of poor, especially among the old, food kitchens have become an increasingly common sight across Seoul.

For those in their 20s and 30s a growing cause of death is suicide and now the rates of suicide of teenagers has been increasing as well.

Faced with rising prices, high unemployment, a welfare system which cannot keep pace, record numbers of South Koreans are succumbing to depression.

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[Bullshit propaganda from the East-Asian Commies; more money cures everything. These lazy and unresourceful people are dead weight for the economy, so it's good that they kill themselves.]