Hello listeners, today we're doing something a little different. Instead of a sci-fi short story, we're reading a non-fiction, longform article instead. This one is about South Korea and the culture of hanjok, or 'alone tribe', where, exhausted by the demands of modern Korean society, some Koreans have chosen to retreat into a den of solitude, reducing societal interaction to a bare minimum, almost as if preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic. How does it all work Find out when you listen.
Read the full article on Rest of World.org here https://restofworld.org/2020/south-korea-honjok-loneliness/
Music used:
Lonely Fish by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4655-lonely-fish
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
