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South Korean companies are making employees stage their own death by shutting themselves inside coffins in a bid to curb suicide rates.
The country is facing a suicide crisis with an average of 29.1 suicides per 100, 000 people according to health report issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED).
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Employees are asked to sign mock wills and write final letters to their families. Then the lights are lowered and the coffins are shut while participants lay inside for 10 long minutes.
For Jeong Yong-mun head of the Hyowon Healing Centre and former funeral company employee, the workshop is designed for people to embrace their problems and understand that difficulties are part of life, he told the BBC.
For Park Chun-woong the president of a human resources firm who signed up his staff to the ‘death workshop’, the shock enables them to have a new attitude.
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“Our company has always encouraged employees to change their old ways of thinking, but it was hard to bring about any real difference, ” said Park Chun-woong.
“I thought going inside a coffin would be such a shocking experience it would completely reset their minds for a completely fresh start in their attitudes, ” he said.
According to Francoise Hugier, a French photographer who made a project about the Hyowon Healing Centre in Seoul, once coffins were reopened, the reactions varied. Some participants had fallen asleep while other cried or took selfies.
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Suicide was the first cause of death among young people from 9 to 24 years old in South Korea in 2013 with rate of 7.0 per 100, 000 up from 7.4 in 2003.
This is bigger than traffic accidents, in second place with 4.4 deaths per 100, 000, while cancer came next at 3.1, according to a report by Statistics Korea.
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Suicide was the first cause of death among young people from 9 to 24 years old in South Korea in 2013 with rate of 7.0 per 100, 000 up from 7.4 in 2003.
This is bigger than traffic accidents, in second place with 4.4 deaths per 100, 000, while cancer came next at 3.1, according to a report by Statistics Korea.
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