Dateline Season 2016 Episode 14 - Korea's Fake Funerals

Airdate: 2016-May-24

Episode summary:

Imagine having a fake funeral where you write your own eulogy or a vending machine which pops out messages of hope. Whilst the world happily consumes K-Pop and Korean smartphones and televisions, the government is fighting one of the world's highest suicide rates. Dateline looks at some of the extreme and unexpected measures being rolled out to help curb suicides every 33 minutes.

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