{"id":15453,"date":"2023-04-15T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15453"},"modified":"2023-04-15T18:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:02:23","slug":"south-korea-offers-lonely-young-people-500-per-month-to-re-enter-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/south-korea-offers-lonely-young-people-500-per-month-to-re-enter-society\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea offers lonely young people $500 per month to re-enter society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Korea\">South Korea<\/a> offers lonely young people $500 per month to re-enter society. The South Korean government has offered to pay about $500 to lonely young people who are secluded from the world to help them &#8220;re-enter society&#8221;, media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced a new measure aiming to support isolated youth&#8217;s \u201cpsychological and emotional stability and healthy growth&#8221; by providing them up to 650,000 Korean won (about $500) per month.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry\u2019s report, 3.1% \u2014 which makes up about 338,000 \u2014 of Koreans aged 19 to 39 are \u201creclusive lonely young people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-ahead-of-us-south-korea-drills.html\">North Korea fires ballistic missile ahead of US-South Korea drills<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>These people are defined as living in a \u201climited space, in a state of being disconnected from the outside for more than a certain period of time, and have noticeable difficulty in living a normal life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report says that about 40% of people start isolating themselves at a young age citing various factors like financial issues, mental illness, family problems or health challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReclusive youths can have slower physical growth due to irregular living and unbalanced nutrition, and are likely to face mental difficulties such as depression due to loss of social roles and delayed adaptation,\u201d said the ministry, emphasising the importance of \u201cactive support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This policy is to target young people \u2014 who are cut off from society or those who don&#8217;t have a guardian or school protection \u2014 as part of the larger Youth Welfare Support Act.<\/p>\n<p>This is something not new to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Korea\">South Korea<\/a> as some cities and local governments have similar systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea offers lonely young people $500 per month to re-enter society. The South Korean government has offered to pay about $500 to lonely young people who are secluded from the world to help them &#8220;re-enter society&#8221;, media reported. Earlier this week, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced a new measure aiming to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8357,2987],"class_list":["post-15453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}