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South Korea’s rental housing system, known as jeonse, allows people to live in rent-free homes for years by paying huge upfront deposits. Landlords gain access to interest-free cash through the system and are supposed to return the money once tenants move out. However, many tenants are unable to reclaim their deposits because landlords vanish. Many such fraud cases leave victims with huge debts that can take decades to pay off. Some of those caught up in jeonse scams resort to taking their own lives.
