자살

An ardent scholar of Korean Studies will very soon come upon this sad mystery: 자살 suicide; a sad mystery, for the precise social determinants have yet to be elucidated. (Jin-Won Kwon et al 2009). The epidemiology is well-appreciated.

While a fuller understanding is being searched for we must be solicitous for mental wellbeing throughout the Peninsula in all its contemporary aspirations, prosperity, and social change.

In the third and fourth stanzas of the 애구가 I think the sentiments expressed have a diagonal address for this sad mystery, not in a sentimental way, but emboldening

가을 하늘 공할한데 높고 구릉없이
밝은 달 우러가슴 일편단심일세

이 기상과 이 맘으로 충성을 다하여
괴로우나 즐거우나 나라 사렁하세

Grateful Acknowledgement

Jin-Won Kwon et al 2009

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