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South Korea's Young Elite Turn Extreme Budgeting into a Game

The Hunger Games of South Korea's Young Elite South Korea's youth unemployment rate hit a decade high in Q1 2026, sparking a peculiar trend among young consumers: they're embracing extreme budgeting as a game.

Geoji Map, a crowdsourced platform that offers ultra cheap meals, has taken the internet by storm.

The platform's creator, Choi Sung soo, is a 34 year old software developer who lost his job in an AI related restructuring and survived on his severance pay while building Geoji Map.

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