Suicide rates in South Korea and internationally following release of the Netflix series ‘Squid Game’

Mark Sinyor, Sangsoo Shin, Jiyun Lee, Steven Stack, Vera Yu Men and Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 371, issue C

Abstract: Widely disseminated media depictions of suicide can result in increased suicides, the so-called Werther effect. Season one of the Netflix series Squid Game (SG) was released in September 2021 and contained multiple depictions of suicide, but suicide was not an obvious theme of the show. This study sought to identify whether release of SG resulted in a Werther effect.

Keywords: Suicide; Media; Werther effect; Squid game; Netflix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117934

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