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Chloe Taylor

South Korea will pay reclusive young people $500 a month to get them to leave the house

Young Korean women visiting Seoul by bus. (Credit: LeoPatrizi/Getty Images)

South Korea is set to hand out almost $500 a month in free cash to coax young, predominantly disadvantaged people out of their reclusive states.

The country’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has launched a new funding program to help youths suffering from hikikomori, a condition named after a Japanese term coined to describe extreme social withdrawal.

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