Lee Youn-Ho, Paik Jong-Woo, Lee Hwa-Young
Department of Public Administration, General Graduate School, Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
Department of Psychiatry, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Psychiatry Investig. 2024 Jul;21(7):681-690. doi: 10.30773/pi.2024.0184. Epub 2024 Jul 24.
In South Korea, there were 12,906 suicides in 2022. This number is 4.7 times higher than the number of traffic accident deaths-i.e., 2,753-in the same year. Suicide is so serious that it is the fifth leading cause of death in South Korea. We would like to discuss how the National Assembly Suicide Prevention Forum was established, what role it has played in preventing suicide, and what role it should play in the future.
We will look into the representatives and lawmakers who made up the National Assembly Suicide Prevention and summarize the topics of seminars conducted in each period.
Through the establishment of the National Assembly Suicide Prevention Forum in 2018, which is referred to hereafter as the "Forum," various efforts have been made to garner the attention of government ministries, which has led to an increase of 6.7 times in the budget for suicide prevention compared to 2017. With the launch of the forum, private organizations that had previously been working independently in their own fields were able to come together and speak with a unified voice. The formation of the Forum has brought the issue of suicide, which had previously been buried in the dark corners of our society, to the forefront as a social problem, and it has provided an impetus for seeking solutions.
In the 22nd National Assembly of South Korea, the National Assembly Suicide Prevention Forum is expected to play a more prominent role, which is expected to lead to substantial achievements in suicide prevention.
2022年韩国有12906人自杀。这一数字比同年交通事故死亡人数（即2753人）高出4.7倍。自杀问题非常严重，是韩国第五大死因。我们想探讨国民议会自杀预防论坛是如何成立的，它在预防自杀方面发挥了什么作用，以及未来应发挥什么作用。
我们将研究组成国民议会自杀预防机构的代表和议员，并总结各阶段举办的研讨会主题。
通过2018年成立国民议会自杀预防论坛（以下简称“论坛”），各方做出了各种努力以引起政府各部门的关注，这使得自杀预防预算相比2017年增长了6.7倍。随着论坛的启动，此前在各自领域独立开展工作的民间组织得以联合起来，发出统一声音。论坛的组建将此前一直隐藏在社会阴暗角落的自杀问题作为一个社会问题推到了前沿，并为寻求解决方案提供了动力。
在韩国第22届国民议会中，国民议会自杀预防论坛有望发挥更突出的作用，预计将在预防自杀方面取得重大成果。
