Daejeon City Designates 5 'Maeumium Cafes' for Youth Suicide Prevention

Providing Information on Suicide Crisis, Mental Health Screening Guidance

Daejeon City has newly designated five 'Maeumieum Cafes.' / Daejeon=Photo by Park Jong-myeong

Daejeon City and the Daejeon Metropolitan Suicide Prevention Center announced the designation of five new "Maeumi-eum Cafes" that provide mental health services to young adults.

"Maeumi-eum Cafe" is a youth mental health platform that offers information related to suicide crises for young people, guides mental health screening tests, and promotes and connects services from local mental health professional institutions.

According to the 2022 cause of death statistics from Statistics Korea, among 238 deaths of people in their 20s and 30s in Daejeon, 140 (58.8%) were due to intentional self-harm (suicide).

Additionally, the suicide rate among people in their 20s and 30s has been steadily increasing, from 23.4 per 100,000 population in 2018 to 27.7 in 2022.

To spread a culture of respecting young life, the city newly designated cafes near regional universities with high inflows of young adults in their 20s and 30s as Maeumi-eum Cafes: "Grazie Cafe" at KAIST (Yuseong-gu), "Soo" and "Sosu" at Chungnam National University, and "Cafe Sasohan" and "Blooming" at Woosong University.

Son Cheol-ung, Director of the Citizen Sports and Health Bureau of Daejeon City, said, "We hope that the operation of these Maeumi-eum Cafes will help young people struggling mentally to overcome their difficulties and lead to a reduction in youth suicide rates."

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