The street finds its own uses for things: In South Korea, where Internet usage is growing rapidly, a number of suicide web sites have appeared; these allow suicidal people to advertise for "suicide partners", or even pay people to kill them. One man has been arrested for failing to prevent a double suicide arranged through one of the sites, and another for stabbing a man to death at his request.

"I killed him like he asked," The Korea Herald quoted Yoon as telling police. "I thought it was a way of helping him."

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