⚡️🇰🇷 INSOLITE - Burned out? South Koreans pay to lock themselves in a prison hotel.

Forget luxury spas—burnt-out South Koreans are paying $130 a night to get locked in a tiny 5-square-meter cell with no phone, no mirror, no distractions—just a mat, a desk, and their thoughts.

Welcome to Prison Inside Me, a “hotel” where stressed-out workers check themselves in for solitary confinement.

Meals are slid through a slot, just like a real prison, and guests spend their time meditating, journaling, or doing yoga in silence.

The brainchild of ex-lawyer Kwon Yong-seok, who once worked 100-hour weeks, this place has been giving white-collar Koreans a hard reset for over a decade.

In a country where people log over 2,000 work hours a year, sometimes the only way out — is locking yourself in.

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"if I could check in and out whenever I wanted this place would be really nice"

-me when I was in prison for "assaulting" a police officer

Wow 👀

2000 hours a year is normal for most people that work a 9 to 5 job. Koreans are famous for doing more hours per week on average but their efficiency is pretty low. In all honesty they waste probably a third of their time at work doing absolutely nothing. If prison helps them organise their schedules better, more power to them, but to me it looks pretty silly to pay a bunch of money to avoid distractions. You can achieve the same with a bit more discipline, free of charge.

Clown world is coocked

Interesting and weirdly appealing 😅

Crazy as you want, they even pay for it. Congratulations on the idea to those who came up with it.

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Or they could go sit a 10 day vipassana meditation course. No phones, no talking, but you get to learn solid meditation techniques.

And its just donation based