Depression in South Korean children has doubled in five years. According to the Education Ministry and the National Health Insurance Service, the number of children aged between 6-11 who were treated for depression surged by 91.5%, from 1,849 in 2018 to 3,541 in 2022.
Some 24,588 teens between the ages of 15-17 and 9,257 children between the ages of 12 and 14 were diagnosed with depression in the same period. The figure also showed the total number of children grappling with depression went up by 60.1% from 2018 to 2022.
The country has also seen a surge in the number of child suicide cases. A total of 822 elementary, middle, and high school students died in apparent suicides from 2018 to 2022.
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