Table 1 Characteristics of celebrity death events.

From: Age and sex subgroups vulnerable to copycat suicide: evaluation of nationwide data in South Korea

Case

Name

Age at death (yr)

Sex

Event date (mm/dd-yyyy)

Time window of interest for copycat suicides

Career

Cause of death

Celebrity 1

J. Choi

39

Female

10/02-2008

10/03-2008–10/22-2008

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity 2

J. Jang

29

Female

03/07-2009

03/07-2009–03/26-2009

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity 3

E. Lee

24

Female

02/22-2005

03/02-2005–03/12-2005

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity4

D. Jeong

26

Female

02/10-2007

02/10-2007–02/18-2007

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity 5

J. Song

29

Female

05/23-2011

05/23-2011–05/28-2011

Anchor

Suicide

Celebrity 6

M. Roh

62

Male

05/23-2009

05/26-2009–06/05-2009

Politician

Suicide

Celebrity 7

M. Chung

54

Male

08/04-2005

08/04-2003–08/23-2008

Businessman

Suicide

Celebrity 8

Y. Park

32

Male

06/30-2010

07/01-2010–07/16-2010

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity 9

J. Choi

39

Male

03/29-2010

04/04-2010–04/10-2010

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity 10

J. Ahn

36

Male

09/08-2008

09/15-2008–09/20-2008

Actor

Suicide

Celebrity 11

A. Kim

74

Male

08/12-2010

08/15-2010–08/20-2010

Fashion

Disease

Celebrity 12

D. Choi

53

Male

09/14-2011

09/15-2011–09/21-2011

Sports

Disease

Celebrity 13

H. Kim

26

Female

01/10-2007

01/10-2007–01/13-2007

Entertainment

Accident

Celebrity 14

E. Lee

27

Male

08/21-2008

08/24-2008–08/27-2008

Actor

Accident

Celebrity 15

S. Lim

29

Male

04/02-2008

04/03-2008–04/08-2008

Entertainment

Disease

Celebrity 16

Y. Lim

24

Male

02/11-2013

02/11-2013–02/19-2013

Entertainment

Disease