Image courtesy of Tom Oates, 2013
I wasn't sure if the BBC was doing some kind of spoof, but it appears this is genuine 
Apparently the South Koreans work ethic has got so competitive over the years, it has led to one of the highest suicide rates in the world. So the best way to fix it? Get the HR department to wheel in a few coffins and get your employees to lie in them, shut the lids for 10 minutes and contemplate the universe.
Then follow it up with some forced laughing, and you have a rejuvenated work force!
I can't see this filtering down to the small business community in the near future, but if you have a suicidal workforce, may be something to contemplate?
In case you think I'm making it up...
BBC News: The employees shut inside coffins
"In a large room in a nondescript modern office block in Seoul, staff from a recruitment company are staging their own funerals. Dressed in white robes, they sit at desks and write final letters to their loved ones. Tearful sniffling becomes open weeping, barely stifled by the copious use of tissues.
And then, the climax: they rise and stand over the wooden coffins laid out beside them. They pause, get in and lie down. They each hug a picture of themselves, draped in black ribbon..."
This country isn't that bad after all 
