Posted : 2021-04-19 17:35
Updated : 2021-04-19 17:35
Students, after sitting their national College Scholastic Ability Test on Dec. 3, 2020, leave their testing site. Yonhap
Nearly one out of three middle and high school students in South Korea mulled suicide over the past year due to academic burden, a survey showed Monday.
In a poll of 5,669 middle and high school students conducted by the state-run National Youth Policy Institute from July to October last year, 27 percent said they had thought of taking their own life within the last year. By gender, 35 percent of female students said so, compared with 19.6 percent of male students.