Entertainment Industry Wants To Commit Suicide

Okay, well, half of them do, anyway. A story in The Korea Times says 40 percent of Korean actors/actresses have considere suicide.

I don't even know what to say. Is this shocking to anyone ... at all???

 Park Jin-hee is apparently majoring in "obvious."

My friend discusses suicide with some of his classes and likes to point out that wealth doesn't make happiness. That's a tough lesson to prove to materialistic Korean kids. He uses the arguement that when we read in the news about people killing themselves, it's always someone with money.

He concedes that the poor people who kill themselves don't get any media attention, but that helps his cause.

The article is about an actress' masters degree paper. From her findings:

'Respondents were quoted as saying, "I am sick of being alive. I want to die" and "I want to commit suicide and have often thought about going through with it." About 20 percent of them actually bought pills or other harmful devices to kill themselves and another 20 percent said that they have confessed to others about their urges.'

Pretty heavy stuff.