SOROK ISLAND, South Korea (Reuters) - Kim Ki-young was separated from his family when he was a child, taken to one of South Korea's most isolated islands and then spent decades as a person whose existence society wanted to forget.
Kim, 80, is one of some 640 people who suffered from leprosy who remain on Sorok Island long after they have been cured of the disease.
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