In a 2021 report,69) the National Assembly Futures Institute suggested “the failure to approach suicide as a social problem” as one of the main reasons for the Korea’s suicide prevention policy not being effective. Most of the discussions related to suicide are conducted in a way to identify the cause of suicide, but it is not easy to explain the reasons why a person decides to commit suicide,70) and excessive attempts to determine the cause of suicide make it appear as a private issue. In fact, most suicide prevention measures are limited to policies that identify and block individual risk factors for suicide, and as a result, there is a view that the social atmosphere that implicitly blames the bereaved has not improved.71) Many more people attempt or contemplate suicide than the number shown in statistics. The view that ‘suicide should be approached as a social problem’ focuses on the fact that a person goes through several stages before deciding to commit suicide, and emphasizes that the suicide rate is related to changes in the social environment. For example, the recent increase in adolescent suicide rates may be the result of a combination of social factors, such as increased depression due to excessive competition and unemployment, weakened social support networks, and increased access to suicide-inducing information through SNS. Therefore, in order to improve the suicide rate, social and economic policies, such as the expansion of the social safety net and the improvement of unfair labor markets, must go hand in hand, as well as individual mental and psychological treatment and support, and such a macro approach should also be addressed as a suicide prevention policy. There are also concerns on the lack of suicide prevention infrastructure and regional imbalance.72) South Korea has prepared a national suicide prevention policy and laws to 69) National Assembly Futures Institute, High suicide rate. What is a problem and what is not a problem? Korea’s suicide rate from the perspective of national unity, Jul. 8, 2021. 70) The motive for suicide is classified into 10 categories by aggregating information from the National Police Agency's accident data, and most of the time, it is confirmed by asking the bereaved family about the motive. From this method, the three main motives (about 75%) of suicides in 2018 are mental and psychiatric problems, economic hardships, and physical disease problems. However, many researchers say that the unique characteristic of suicide is the fact that ‘the cause of death is unknown, and all suggested causes are hypotheses and conjectures.’ 71) According to the Central Psychological Autopsy Center (2021), 71.2% of the bereaved families of suicides said that there was a subject who could not inform the truth of the death due to prejudice and fear of criticism. It is known that 90% experience changes in their daily lives, maintain adverse psychological effects for at least 10 to 15 years, and have a suicide rate 6 to 8 times higher than other groups. 72) Park, Ji-young, 2022, Do social safety nets deal with individual suicide? Minority and inequality, 2022 Human Rights Policy Forum. 30