The Government of South Korea is worried about the results of increased suicide rate. To rein the rate of suicide, the South Korea’s education minister has introduced a Smartphone App, which is designed to monitor the activities of web searches, social media, messages and suicide-related words.
The South Korea has coded an application for the smartphone to reduce the high rate of student suicide by cautioning parents when their children might be at risk, the education minister of South Korea said today. This smartphone application may be introduced in the current year. This smartphone application will send an alert to the parents of those children who are determined to be at risk.
About 40 Korean students commit suicide every day, making it nation’s fourth-highest cause of death in 2012. According to the survey, a total of 878 students commits suicide between 2009 and 2014, in which 118 students took their own lives last year. "Student suicide has become a social problem requiring systematic and comprehensive steps to prevent it," the ministry said in a statement. South Korea’s Suicide rate ranks among the highest of the 34 member nations of the organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The ministry official said, "The apps were only approved today at a meeting of related cabinet members, but we hope their installation will spread quickly among schools, students and parents nationwide." "Instead of a stop-gap policy, we must work out a fundamental and eventual solution because various factors lead to the suicide of students" Said by Korean Federation of Teachers Associations.
