South Korea: Virtual Suicides
10 minutes, 2002
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As the world prepares to descend on South Korea, we reveal a disturbing new trend in the country of internet suicide sites that have already inspired a series of multiple suicides by teenagers there. Korea is in the grip of an on-line obsession, with virtual games the rage of the country’s youth - and these sites are cashing in on the craze. Dozens of suicide sites have been shut down, but police are finding it hard to trace many of them. We went inside this virtual obsession to find out more from the players and the police and to see if the trend could spread to the rest of the world.