<p>This article examines suicidality—including suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts—among young women in South Korea through a processual-relational approach that I develop to foreground lived experiences rather than static risk factors. While public health and medical research often reduce suicide to quantifiable variables, even when considering social factors, I argue that suicidality emerges from the accumulation of challenges and individuals’ shifting relationships to society. To support this claim, I analyze three life stories drawn from 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2021–2022) in South Korea, including interviews with women in their twenties and thirties. Over time, my interlocutors came to recognize that their suffering arises from long-term struggles with patriarchal environments and pressures of normative life paths, generating profound disillusionment and hopelessness toward Korean society. To better understand these experiences, the processual-relational approach moves beyond analyzing structural factors like patriarchy and rigid social norms by tracing the cumulative processes through which individuals gradually (re)interpret sources of suffering as structural rather than merely personal. This process fosters awareness of their marginalized position and cultivates a renewed relationship with society. By proposing this approach, this study contributes to scholarship on suicide by emphasizing temporality, relationality, and individuals’ active processes of meaning-making.</p>