Depression, as a product of sociocultural experiences, shows a variety of differences according to races and culture. The cultural specific character of depression proposes two prerequisites in study on depression. First, a medical study should be carried out simultaneously with a cultural study for prevention and treatment of depression. Second, the cultural study on depression should be conducted with the culture and products of the relevant society as a text. For developing a method of treating depression fit for the reality of modern Koreans' lives, it is urgent to establish contents of modern Korean culture about depression and a suicide. This paper aims to develop a cultural program of preventing committing suicide from depression, and examined a methods of establishing modern about depression and a suicide. The suicide-preventing program proposed by this paper is a video of a multi-art type, formed by music, a video, recitation, theatrical elements, etc. being combined, which a depressive patient experiences a problem-solving process in an initiative and aesthetic process. As a concrete case of contents, this paper looked into ＜Laughter＞, Choi In-hun's novel that written the process in which a woman who lost love goes a suicide trip and returns. This novel is a piece of work which dealt with and figured in detail the mental state of a suicide of a depressive patient and expected to be an effective text for depression treatment and suicide prevention.

Depression, as a product of sociocultural experiences, shows a variety of differences according to races and culture. The cultural specific character of depression proposes two prerequisites in study on depression. First, a medical study should be carried out simultaneously with a cultural study for prevention and treatment of depression. Second, the cultural study on depression should be conducted with the culture and products of the relevant society as a text. For developing a method of treating depression fit for the reality of modern Koreans' lives, it is urgent to establish contents of modern Korean culture about depression and a suicide. This paper aims to develop a cultural program of preventing committing suicide from depression, and examined a methods of establishing modern about depression and a suicide. The suicide-preventing program proposed by this paper is a video of a multi-art type, formed by music, a video, recitation, theatrical elements, etc. being combined, which a depressive patient experiences a problem-solving process in an initiative and aesthetic process. As a concrete case of contents, this paper looked into ＜Laughter＞, Choi In-hun's novel that written the process in which a woman who lost love goes a suicide trip and returns. This novel is a piece of work which dealt with and figured in detail the mental state of a suicide of a depressive patient and expected to be an effective text for depression treatment and suicide prevention.

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