This research aimed to investigate the correlation between suicide-related keywords and actual suicide rate of Korean males. To do so, five words related to ‘suicide’ such as society, pain, anger, stress and depression were extracted and it aimed to investigate the relationship based on the difference in duration between the date of search and the actual date of suicide. As a result, the actual rate of suicide of men was found to be significant with time difference of about three months from the time of searching for the words related to suicide.

suicide, depression, gender paradox.