By Kim Rahn
Staff Reporter
Over the weekend, two teenagers were found dead in apparent suicides over an exam result and allowances, respectively, while a middle school girl died after heavy drinking with high school boys she met through online chatting, police said.
A high school senior died in an apparent suicide Saturday, two days after taking the college entrance exam. Police in Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province, said that the student, 18-year-old Park, was found dead in the parking lot of an apartment complex around 1:50 p.m.
Park's schoolbag was found on the top of the 40-meter-high apartment building and police suspect he jumped off it. No suicide note was found. His family and friends said that Park, who used to do well at school, was disappointed by the test result.
On Sunday, a 14-year-old boy committed suicide in his room in Daegu around 6 p.m. His mother reported it to police.
The mother testified that she and the son had a quarrel over allowances for a school trip. The boy went to his room and later was found hanging.
Police suspect he killed himself after being discouraged at the small amount of pocket money.
Separately, a 15-year-old girl was found unconscious after a drinking binge near the guardhouse of an apartment in north of Seoul at 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The girl was transferred to a hospital but died.
According to police, the girl drank with a female friend and two high schoolboys she came to know through online chatting on the rooftop of the apartment building.
The boys testified that while drinking, the two girls passed out and the boys took them to the guardhouse and went home. Worried about them, they returned and found one of the girls, unconscious. The female friend said she tried to wake her up but couldn't, and left her there.
Police asked the National Institute of Scientific Investigation to perform an autopsy on the body to find the exact cause of the death.