27. According to the 2019 Suicide Prevention White Paper published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and the Korea Suicide Prevention Center, the 2017 Online Survey on Juveniles’ Health Status conducted by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the MOHW and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) found that 25.1% of the respondents (20.3% of the male respondents and 30.3% of the female respondents) had experienced depression in the previous 12 months and 12.1% of the respondents (9.4% of the male respondents and 15.0% of the female respondents) had seriously considered killing themselves in the previous 12 months. This survey also looked into the relationship between the juveniles’ consideration of suicide (serious consideration of suicide in the previous 12 months) and their individual experiences, which revealed that the juveniles who had taken medical treatment due to the damage from violence on multiple occasions, recorded low scores at school, belonged to a family with bad economic conditions or were dwelling at a relative’s home or a child-rearing facility were more likely to consider killing themselves. 28. The Government announced the National Action Plan for Suicide Prevention on January 23, 2018 which enumerates a range of specific plans to prevent child suicide, such as increasing effectiveness in the system to prevent elementary and middle school students’ suicides, increasing the capacity to identify students with suicidal risk, expanding specialists’ visits for counseling at school, increasing specialization in counseling and managing the cases of out-of-school juveniles. However, considering that the juveniles who have suffered violence, record low scores at school, belong to a family with bad economic conditions or is in an alternative care setting are more likely to consider killing themselves, it is necessary to work out suicide prevention measures which are tailored to a diversity of situations in which vulnerable children are placed. 29. The Government should give more support to the children in vulnerable situations, and formulate and implement policy measures to address the fundamental causes of child suicide. Issue 11. Baby boxes – in relation to para. 4 (c) of the List of Issues 30. The baby box which was installed in Gwanak-gu, Seoul in December 2009 and the one which was installed in Gunpo-si, Gyeonggi-do in May 2014 have been operated by the private sector. Out of the children abandoned in the baby boxes in 2018, 171 were taken over by the local governments (para. 14 of the Replies to the List of Issues). There are various reasons why children have been persistently abandoned in the private-run baby boxes: their parents were unable to get an abortion operation although it was an unwanted pregnancy; or they find it difficult to bring up the child or register the child’s birth, due to their social or economic situations, such as economic difficulty, the burden of parenting and the status of single mother, or because the child was born out of wedlock or has a disability. 8