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Lawmaker questions high suicide rate at SH Corp apartments
SH Corporation headquarters in Gaepo-dong, Seoul / Korea Times File
By Ko Dong-hwan
A lawmaker this week called for an investigation into a property management company due to a high suicide rate at its apartments in Seoul.
Rep. Lee Noh-geun of the ruling Saenuri Party made public city records that show that 133 residents of apartments operated by SH Corp. have taken their own lives over the last three-and-a-half years.
Providing roofs to some 159,000 households as of August of this year, the apartments have been mostly occupied by mostly low-income people including elderly citizens.
Lee claimed there could be a link between the living environment of the apartments and the high suicide rate.