South Korea uses AI to prevent suicides, track crime on Seoul’s Han River bridges

“We get three to four suspected suicide attempts that result in a dispatch call every day,” Kim said in an interview. “Most of them go with officers without protest, which means they were determined to end their lives.”

The intervention record reflects the scale of the crisis as well as the effectiveness of the response.

According to city data, suicide attempts on Han River bridges have surpassed 1,000 for four consecutive years since 2022, reaching 1,270 dispatch calls last year alone. Of those, 10 resulted in deaths, a survival rate of 99 per cent.