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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.8.4874

Effects of Cultural Facilities and City Parks on the Regional Suicide Rates in Korea  

Cho, Soo-Mi (Department of Culture and Arts Management, Hongik University)
Shin, Hyung-Deok (School of Business Administration, Hongik. University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.8, 2014 , pp. 4874-4880 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the effects of cultural facilities and city parts on the regional suicide rates in Korea. Data of theaters, exhibition facilities, libraries and city parts was collected in 143 local areas governments. The number of theaters and the size of city parts had a significant effect on decreasing the regional suicide rates in the areas, and the number of exhibition facilities had partial impacts. This result suggests that the dynamic components of a culture and arts environments may work more effectively to relieve depression and stress and decrease the suicide rates. This study suggests that the cultural welfare environments can be found to solve the problem of the high suicide rates in Korea.
Keywords
Suicide Rates; Cultural Welfare Environments; Cultural Facilities; City Parks;
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