Andrew Knox: South Korea has unusually high suicide rate in the OECD. He says rise was driven by more young women committing suicide. Young men continued to kill themselves at much higher rates in Korea than women, he says. But do we know why young women are more at risk than they used to be? asks Knox.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again retained the presidency. We ask how the best chance in a generation to unseat him came unstuck—and what to expect from an emboldened autocrat. South Korea’s suicide rates have turned a dark corner, with deaths among women driving rising numbers. And Paul Simon’s new album prompts a look at musical hits first conceived in dreams.
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