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Apparently it wasn't quite enough to assuage his guilt?
 

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I doubt these sorts experience guilt, but are just clever enough to realise the extent to which their 'life' is over once caught.
 

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Isn't this the third person to commit suicide over that event? Does Korea have the same sort of cultural views toward suicide that Japan does?
 

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Isn't this the third person to commit suicide over that event? Does Korea have the same sort of cultural views toward suicide that Japan does?

No, of course not. Korea and Japan are entirely separate ancient cultures with no linguistic connection and nothing to do with each other. (sarcasm alert)

Their cultures are as different as Switzerland's and Austria's, as Portland's and Seattle's, as Cubs fans' and White Sox fans'.

And they are about as friendly as any two European neighboring countries have historically been, or any two neighboring sports teams.

(Actually they have some fascinating historic and archeological connections, but also a fraught history. Studying their similarities makes both nations uncomfortable.)
 
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Isn't this the third person to commit suicide over that event? Does Korea have the same sort of cultural views toward suicide that Japan does?

Maybe it isn't......<theme music to Twilight Zone>
 

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Well, I know that South Korea was having issues with mass suicides at around the same time Japan did. I didn't know if they were having a similar cultural attitude toward suicide at the moment. I wouldn't find it surprising to learn that a Japanese man in a situation like this had committed suicide, and I'm wondering how much is a cultural element, and how much is just something related to this specific person and case.
 

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S. Korean billionaire fugitive owner of the ferry involved in the disastrous sinking some weeks ago, accused of corruption leading directly to the event, found dead:

http://news.msn.com/world/body-of-missing-skorean-shipping-tycoon-found

Srsly, how damn much money do you really need?

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It's not about how much you have, it's about how you got it and what you do with it.

Apparently this guy got his money by means he was hoping wouldn't become public.
 

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Isn't this the third person to commit suicide over that event? Does Korea have the same sort of cultural views toward suicide that Japan does?
I think so. Koreans and Japanese often commit suicide in the same manner, i.e., suffocation. In somewhat recent news, several big (in S. Korea!) name producers have taken their own lives after failed productions, legal trouble, not paying their actors, etc.