The article did not mention what to me is the saddest aspect of suicide in South Korea. This is amongst the retired old folk. They don't want to be a burden on

The article did not mention what to me is the saddest aspect of suicide in South Korea. This is amongst the retired old folk. They don't want to be a burden on the world and their family, there isn't a lot of state support for them and so they take some nasty pesticides, hang themselves or poison themselves by carbon monoxide. When they were young they looked after their grandparents, but, with family sizes not being what they were and with people moving away for jobs etc. they don't have a surplus of children or grandchildren (or great grandchildren) around to look after them. Hence the particularly tragic ending. Not sure why the article cites the '...not enough social media followers' reason for suicide when the tragedy with the old folk is a bigger phenomenon.