Global Awareness Classes 11, 17, 18 & 19: Class 19

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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Crunch time!

We started week 3 today, and everyone is very busy! T-shirt art, sidewalk chalk art, practicing for our Thursday night performance, and, of course more blogging.....

class 19 PA (feat. with kim jong guk)

Hello, My name is Yoon chan.
Today, I'll talk about my class PA.
First of all, He looks like kim jong guk. Seriously, they look like twins.
Also, Their eyes, nose, lips, ears, even their height.
He helped me to adapt this GLPS camp. He is a really good advisor.

My favorite PA

Hello my name is Jihyo. I'm going to talk about my favorite PA.
My favorite PA is Hyoyoung Lee. She is my room PA. She helps us in many ways. I could adapt here with her help. She is photo PA. She takes our pictures and uploads them on the website. I like her because she is very kind and pretty. Also, she is smart.

young people suicide in korea

Lots of young people in Korea in 2002, they died because of car accident. But today lots are dead because of suicide. The graph of car accident decreased but today suicide increases. We should think about prevention of suicide.

BY: Oh Min Hyuck (2015/8/10)

suicide prevention

I was surprised that many people commit suicide in many cities in Korea.
We can call to lots of organizations to get help.

http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/international/south-korea-suicide-hotlines.html
you can go in here and call.

By Ryun Gi

Friday, August 7, 2015

Interview with a Person who Tried to Suicide

We are Class 19 at GLPS and today we interviewed a boy who tried to kill himself recently, Fortunately he was not successful! Please read our interview below:

Q1 : Why do people commit suicide?

A : It's because they get stress.

Q2 : what is a place that you'd do suicide?

A : I tried to die in my apartment.

Q3 : How did your parents felt after comitting suicide?

A : They got shocked and felt sad.

Q4 : How did your friends felt after comitting suicide?

A : They also got shocked.

Q5 : who was the on who stopped you from suicide?

A : My friend name Yoo Jun stopped me from suicide.

Q6 : Do you regrets about what you did?

A : Yes, I do. I've known that I was wrong.

As we said above, he was not successful in his suicide (fortunately). We hope you have enjoyed reading our interview, and that you have learned something about suicide.

The Fact of Suicide in Korea

In 2013, the number of the peoople who commited suicide was 14,427(highest suicide rate in OECD). But most Koreans don't know about how serious this problem is. In this article, we will explain the problem in greater detail.

Firstly, we will tell you about the number of people who are actually committing suicide. In Korea, three people commit suicide every 2 hours. About 30 people will have commited suicide by 6 o'clock. That's as many as an entire class of a high school. Each day, about 40 people commit suicide, which is as many as the number of people who are riding a high speed bus. Every month, about 1200 people, equivalent to the number of people who live in 300 household apartments commit suicide. About every 8 months, about a million people (the whole population of Ulleung island) commit suicide.
Now, you can realize just how serious suicide in Korea is.

Secondly, the Korean government has tried lots of things to prevent suicide. Sadly, it has not been supported by Koreans. The Korean government banned tools which can help in committing suicide such as herbicide and charcoal. Also it said we should boost the population by increasing the birth rate. But these proposed solutions are not enough, and we need even more solutions.

Suicide is not a simple problem. It's a serious problem, and we should know about that the problem is serious and important in our society. So, all of us have to pay more attention and try to solve the problem together. Individually our power may be small, but if we act together our power will be stronger. Together we can do it!