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Hikikomori: Why S Korea is paying young recluses to leave home

2023-05-27 05:23
Money only "touches the surface" of a deeper problem, former recluses and youth workers say.
Hikikomori: Why S Korea is paying young recluses to leave home

In 2019, Yoo Seung-gyu stepped out of his studio apartment for the first time in five years.

The 30-year-old first cleaned up his "messy apartment" with his brother. And then he went out to sea for a fishing expedition, with fellow recluses he had met through a non-profit organisation.

"It...