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‘Take me to Han River’: Cab driver tries to talk passenger out of suicide in happy misunderstanding
['Yoon Min-Sik']
The korea Herald News Rss
Just please go home," as the taxi was headed to Mapo Bridge over the Han River.
Bewildered, the young man checked his phone only to discover that he had mistakenly entered the Han River bridge as his destination on the taxi call application.
"(The app) said you were heading to Mapo Bridge, so I thought..." said the driver.
2024 data from the Seoul Metropolitan Government showed that 26.5 percent of the 5,341 suicide attempts at Han River bridges between 2022 and Sept., 2024, occurred at Mapo Bridge.
The Seoul City government has installed additional structures on top of the existing railings of some Han River bridges in its efforts to prevent suicide attempts.