Finding Your Own Space as a Digital Nomad Couple with Anh Tuan and Erika
There are a million articles online about becoming a digital nomad, where to work, where to sleep, how to travel when you’re a parent… But there’s little on how to be a couple that’s constantly on the move. Together.
Anh Tuan and Erika hate being labeled as a couple. ‘Hate’ is a strong word, but they mean it. Both of them already spend most of their day together working online as book publishers and infopreneurs. In the evening they go to local events, often the same ones, and often meet the same people. Then they travel to new destinations - that’s a whole one day, sometimes two, of just being with each other 100% of the time!
That’s a lot and that’s why both loved Digital Nomads Korea. The weekly events of the community let them meet people by themselves, instead of as an inseparable duo.
Why did you decide to work remotely in Korea?
Erika: I started watching Korean dramas seven or ten years ago, so I was very interested in Korea and its culture early on. I went in 2022, barely a year after becoming a digital nomad. , I was so curious about how life was there! It wasn’t hard to convince Anh Tuan (laughs).
Anh Tuan: She said « Let’s go to Korea » and I said, « ok ! ». I didn’t know what to expect and I didn’t try to figure it out. I knew about the conflict with North Korea and that South Korea was very good at tech. That’s all. I fell in love with it as soon as we got there.
Your first trip was in 2022 before the Digital Nomads Korea (DNK) community was born?
Erika: Yes. We stayed a month and we traveled there more like tourists than nomads back then. We were just curious and there wasn’t much of a digital nomad community to connect with.
Anh Tuan: What’s funny is that, just after our trip, we headed to Thailand, and by some sort of funny coincidence, we met Jeong. We were talking about how cool the digital community in Chiang Mai is, and how we felt like there should be something similar in Korea. Jeong said, «Yeah, I’m planning to start meetups ».
So you decided to come back, a year later, to see what Seoul as a digital nomad would be like…
Anh Tuan: Exactly. We were excited to see how daily life in Seoul would be. We decided to stay for three months, with visa exemptions. The digital nomad community was growing a lot on WhatsApp, and it was easy to find coworkings and colivings.
Erika: We loved our experience so much that we are already planning to return for three months, starting next August! I think we’ll mostly stay in Seoul, but I’d love to try the Hoppin workations in other parts of the country if there’s any this autumn!
Did you start your digital nomad life as a couple?
Anh Tuan: Yes, which is pretty rare. Most digital nomads are single, and those who aren’t often met while traveling. We started our journey together, on August 17th, 2021 - it’s our digital nomad anniversary (laughs). It wasn’t my first experience abroad. I was an expat in a few countries before that. After two years of being stuck during lockdown, I just wanted to live and travel around again.
Erika: I wanted this lifestyle longer. I met a digital nomad couple in France, a few years ago, and I started following them on social media. Their life seemed so cool, that I started dreaming about doing the same. I took on a job I could do on the move and we were lucky, I think, that our desires and careers just aligned then.
What are the biggest advantages and inconveniences of being a digital nomad couple?
Erika: For me, the biggest benefit is that you always have someone you can lean on when you’re down or going through challenges. You experience so many new things when you start traveling: you meet new people, discover new landscapes, visit new cities… It’s nice to have someone with whom you can share, truly, those new feelings.
Anh Tuan: It’s also a great support system. A lot of nomads are alone so they don’t have immediate support. They have to seek it out by making friends and that can take time. We have immediate companionship which is nice. But it’s challenging for us sometimes to deal with how we're perceived or how we perceive ourselves because we see each other all the time. As a digital nomad, there’s no family dinner, no big gathering with your long-time friends, or after-work evenings with your colleagues. We share a home (a different home every time), we travel together (sometimes for 1 or 2 days and we’re full-time together - can get stressful and we have to deal with all that together), we eat together, we work together (often at home, for logistics it’s just easier)...
How do you not get sick of each other? (laughs)
Anh Tuan: It’s true that the hours you spend together just add up a lot (laughs). It's a very different couple dynamic to a sedentary life. The trick is trying to find the balance. It’s an ever-changing target because it changes every time we go somewhere new.
Erika: What I find the hardest is to get your own space. Especially if, like us, you’re two very independent people. You constantly need to be careful of finding a balance between doing things together and having your circle of friends, your activities, and your time. We’ve talked a lot about that. Especially for me, it was a problem. I hate being labeled as ‘the couple’. I want to be seen as an individual. It takes extra effort to be seen as separate people.
Anh Tuan: I think we’ve gotten a lot better at getting our own space but it takes us a while to get there every time we move somewhere new. That’s why we went to the Digital Nomads Korea meetup at Tap Public the first week we got to Korea. It was great as a booster for both of us. There were enough people that we could split up and talk with different groups.
You did go to Digital Nomads Korea meetups nearly every week…
Erika: I even messaged the DNK Whatsapp group once, to say that I was grateful for the meetups. It was just so great to have a regular event to go to to meet new people - including Koreans! There are international digital nomads, of course, but there are also so many locals who are curious about our lifestyle. I met many friends through these evenings…
Anh Tuan: One thing I liked about the meetups was that they were in calm bars. It made the whole experience quite flexible because you can move around and talk to more people. Digital nomad meetups in Asia are almost always dinners and it makes the interaction difficult sometimes. You have to sit, eat, and talk with your close neighbors. You’re kind of stuck.
But you’re also super active in the online community!
Erika: I want to keep in touch with the community even when I’m abroad. I love Korea so much. Leaving was hard actually. I was kind of sad the first few weeks I got back to Thailand this year.
Anh Tuan: I was very active in the DNK Whatsapp group from the start, and then I helped open the Discord server. I've been one of the moderators there since. I love that I can give feedback on how I think the community could evolve, or advice on the tools we could use to make it a nicer place. Jeong always listens to what I have to say (sometimes we agree and sometimes not) and we can have conversations about it. It feels great to participate in helping shape this community. The whole online presence is well done. It was so practical to gather info on where to eat and what to do. I’m always talking about having a support system and this was a very good one.
What was your biggest challenge in Korea?
Anh Tuan: Oh that one is for you, Erika! We have a system (laughs). She takes care of the accommodation and I take care of how we get to places.
Erika: Yeah, there weren’t many places for couples. Most apartments were for single people, or double the price for couples even though the space would be the same. There were also many accommodations asking for the resident card (ARC) and a huge deposit - more than 4.000 and 8.000 euros!
Anh Tuan: The huge deposit was definitely an issue. So instead, we focused on places tailored for nomads (there weren't many). You get an instant community and support system. It’s nice to have a shared space, shared activities… We loved discovering Seoul and Korea with our housemates. For some of them, it was the first time they were coming. Others had been here often and some people were locals. It was kind of a perfect mix. It was an incredible opportunity to be able to talk and get the insights of locals like we did in our coliving. In other countries, it’s so much harder, especially in Asia.
What about the thing you liked the most?
Anh Tuan: I loved doing things in Korea. For example, wearing a hanbok in a palace. That was a funny experience.
Erika: And we went taking pictures in photo booths so often! With people from the Digital Nomads Korea community, with our coliving housemates, for my birthday… I love all those physical memories we have of our best nights - the group outings, the karaoke, the parties.
And what about being a couple in Korea? Korea has such a specific dating culture. Did it affect you?
Anh Tuan: (laughs) It was funny to see the matching clothes of Korean couples, the photo booths with cute accessories, and just the way they act with each other. It was so different. Usually, it’s not that obvious, it’s a more private thing. In Korea, it’s everywhere. You have couples holidays, targeted merchandising… It’s so public!
Erika: Honestly, it made me feel a bit alien sometimes (laughs). It’s so far away from the way I see things, especially when I see how possessive Koreans can be compared to French people. A friend of mine was telling me a story once. She and one of her male colleagues were going home after a company dinner. They were both going in the same direction - but suddenly he was saying “Oh, no, I’m sorry, I can’t go with you. I have a girlfriend.” He went the opposite way to make a big detour on purpose because he wanted to make sure there was no possible confusion. And I see my Korean friends: they’re constantly texting, “What are you doing”, “Is everything ok”... I was like, wow, this is another world!
Anh Tuan & Erika’s recommendations
☕️ A cafe to chill with a view
Noop Cafe is one of my favorite places. It’s a nice place to chill and it’s got a beautiful view of the city and Namsan. I love it. (Erika)
🖥 A PC bang for esport culture
Optimum Zone PC Cafe, it’s a great internet cafe to explore the video game and esports side of Korean culture. You can order food from your chair and it’s directly brought to you! (Anh Tuan)
📺 A TV show to discover Seoul
Itaewon Class, it’s such a great intro to Korea, which happens in one of the famous neighborhoods of Seoul. And you need to listen to the songs! Anh Tuan loves listening to ‘Start Over’ by Gaho to motivate himself when he works. (Erika)
Finding Your Own Space as a Digital Nomad Couple with Anh Tuan and Erika
There are a million articles online about becoming a digital nomad, where to work, where to sleep, how to travel when you’re a parent… But there’s little on how to be a couple that’s constantly on the move. Together.
Anh Tuan and Erika hate being labeled as a couple. ‘Hate’ is a strong word, but they mean it. Both of them already spend most of their day together working online as book publishers and infopreneurs. In the evening they go to local events, often the same ones, and often meet the same people. Then they travel to new destinations - that’s a whole one day, sometimes two, of just being with each other 100% of the time!
That’s a lot and that’s why both loved Digital Nomads Korea. The weekly events of the community let them meet people by themselves, instead of as an inseparable duo.
Why did you decide to work remotely in Korea?
Erika: I started watching Korean dramas seven or ten years ago, so I was very interested in Korea and its culture early on. I went in 2022, barely a year after becoming a digital nomad. , I was so curious about how life was there! It wasn’t hard to convince Anh Tuan (laughs).
Anh Tuan: She said « Let’s go to Korea » and I said, « ok ! ». I didn’t know what to expect and I didn’t try to figure it out. I knew about the conflict with North Korea and that South Korea was very good at tech. That’s all. I fell in love with it as soon as we got there.
Your first trip was in 2022 before the Digital Nomads Korea (DNK) community was born?
Erika: Yes. We stayed a month and we traveled there more like tourists than nomads back then. We were just curious and there wasn’t much of a digital nomad community to connect with.
Anh Tuan: What’s funny is that, just after our trip, we headed to Thailand, and by some sort of funny coincidence, we met Jeong. We were talking about how cool the digital community in Chiang Mai is, and how we felt like there should be something similar in Korea. Jeong said, «Yeah, I’m planning to start meetups ».
So you decided to come back, a year later, to see what Seoul as a digital nomad would be like…
Anh Tuan: Exactly. We were excited to see how daily life in Seoul would be. We decided to stay for three months, with visa exemptions. The digital nomad community was growing a lot on WhatsApp, and it was easy to find coworkings and colivings.
Erika: We loved our experience so much that we are already planning to return for three months, starting next August! I think we’ll mostly stay in Seoul, but I’d love to try the Hoppin workations in other parts of the country if there’s any this autumn!
Did you start your digital nomad life as a couple?
Anh Tuan: Yes, which is pretty rare. Most digital nomads are single, and those who aren’t often met while traveling. We started our journey together, on August 17th, 2021 - it’s our digital nomad anniversary (laughs). It wasn’t my first experience abroad. I was an expat in a few countries before that. After two years of being stuck during lockdown, I just wanted to live and travel around again.
Erika: I wanted this lifestyle longer. I met a digital nomad couple in France, a few years ago, and I started following them on social media. Their life seemed so cool, that I started dreaming about doing the same. I took on a job I could do on the move and we were lucky, I think, that our desires and careers just aligned then.
What are the biggest advantages and inconveniences of being a digital nomad couple?
Erika: For me, the biggest benefit is that you always have someone you can lean on when you’re down or going through challenges. You experience so many new things when you start traveling: you meet new people, discover new landscapes, visit new cities… It’s nice to have someone with whom you can share, truly, those new feelings.
Anh Tuan: It’s also a great support system. A lot of nomads are alone so they don’t have immediate support. They have to seek it out by making friends and that can take time. We have immediate companionship which is nice. But it’s challenging for us sometimes to deal with how we're perceived or how we perceive ourselves because we see each other all the time. As a digital nomad, there’s no family dinner, no big gathering with your long-time friends, or after-work evenings with your colleagues. We share a home (a different home every time), we travel together (sometimes for 1 or 2 days and we’re full-time together - can get stressful and we have to deal with all that together), we eat together, we work together (often at home, for logistics it’s just easier)...
How do you not get sick of each other? (laughs)
Anh Tuan: It’s true that the hours you spend together just add up a lot (laughs). It's a very different couple dynamic to a sedentary life. The trick is trying to find the balance. It’s an ever-changing target because it changes every time we go somewhere new.
Erika: What I find the hardest is to get your own space. Especially if, like us, you’re two very independent people. You constantly need to be careful of finding a balance between doing things together and having your circle of friends, your activities, and your time. We’ve talked a lot about that. Especially for me, it was a problem. I hate being labeled as ‘the couple’. I want to be seen as an individual. It takes extra effort to be seen as separate people.
Anh Tuan: I think we’ve gotten a lot better at getting our own space but it takes us a while to get there every time we move somewhere new. That’s why we went to the Digital Nomads Korea meetup at Tap Public the first week we got to Korea. It was great as a booster for both of us. There were enough people that we could split up and talk with different groups.
You did go to Digital Nomads Korea meetups nearly every week…
Erika: I even messaged the DNK Whatsapp group once, to say that I was grateful for the meetups. It was just so great to have a regular event to go to to meet new people - including Koreans! There are international digital nomads, of course, but there are also so many locals who are curious about our lifestyle. I met many friends through these evenings…
Anh Tuan: One thing I liked about the meetups was that they were in calm bars. It made the whole experience quite flexible because you can move around and talk to more people. Digital nomad meetups in Asia are almost always dinners and it makes the interaction difficult sometimes. You have to sit, eat, and talk with your close neighbors. You’re kind of stuck.
But you’re also super active in the online community!
Erika: I want to keep in touch with the community even when I’m abroad. I love Korea so much. Leaving was hard actually. I was kind of sad the first few weeks I got back to Thailand this year.
Anh Tuan: I was very active in the DNK Whatsapp group from the start, and then I helped open the Discord server. I've been one of the moderators there since. I love that I can give feedback on how I think the community could evolve, or advice on the tools we could use to make it a nicer place. Jeong always listens to what I have to say (sometimes we agree and sometimes not) and we can have conversations about it. It feels great to participate in helping shape this community. The whole online presence is well done. It was so practical to gather info on where to eat and what to do. I’m always talking about having a support system and this was a very good one.
What was your biggest challenge in Korea?
Anh Tuan: Oh that one is for you, Erika! We have a system (laughs). She takes care of the accommodation and I take care of how we get to places.
Erika: Yeah, there weren’t many places for couples. Most apartments were for single people, or double the price for couples even though the space would be the same. There were also many accommodations asking for the resident card (ARC) and a huge deposit - more than 4.000 and 8.000 euros!
Anh Tuan: The huge deposit was definitely an issue. So instead, we focused on places tailored for nomads (there weren't many). You get an instant community and support system. It’s nice to have a shared space, shared activities… We loved discovering Seoul and Korea with our housemates. For some of them, it was the first time they were coming. Others had been here often and some people were locals. It was kind of a perfect mix. It was an incredible opportunity to be able to talk and get the insights of locals like we did in our coliving. In other countries, it’s so much harder, especially in Asia.
What about the thing you liked the most?
Anh Tuan: I loved doing things in Korea. For example, wearing a hanbok in a palace. That was a funny experience.
Erika: And we went taking pictures in photo booths so often! With people from the Digital Nomads Korea community, with our coliving housemates, for my birthday… I love all those physical memories we have of our best nights - the group outings, the karaoke, the parties.
And what about being a couple in Korea? Korea has such a specific dating culture. Did it affect you?
Anh Tuan: (laughs) It was funny to see the matching clothes of Korean couples, the photo booths with cute accessories, and just the way they act with each other. It was so different. Usually, it’s not that obvious, it’s a more private thing. In Korea, it’s everywhere. You have couples holidays, targeted merchandising… It’s so public!
Erika: Honestly, it made me feel a bit alien sometimes (laughs). It’s so far away from the way I see things, especially when I see how possessive Koreans can be compared to French people. A friend of mine was telling me a story once. She and one of her male colleagues were going home after a company dinner. They were both going in the same direction - but suddenly he was saying “Oh, no, I’m sorry, I can’t go with you. I have a girlfriend.” He went the opposite way to make a big detour on purpose because he wanted to make sure there was no possible confusion. And I see my Korean friends: they’re constantly texting, “What are you doing”, “Is everything ok”... I was like, wow, this is another world!
Anh Tuan & Erika’s recommendations
☕️ A cafe to chill with a view
Noop Cafe is one of my favorite places. It’s a nice place to chill and it’s got a beautiful view of the city and Namsan. I love it. (Erika)
🖥 A PC bang for esport culture
Optimum Zone PC Cafe, it’s a great internet cafe to explore the video game and esports side of Korean culture. You can order food from your chair and it’s directly brought to you! (Anh Tuan)
📺 A TV show to discover Seoul
Itaewon Class, it’s such a great intro to Korea, which happens in one of the famous neighborhoods of Seoul. And you need to listen to the songs! Anh Tuan loves listening to ‘Start Over’ by Gaho to motivate himself when he works. (Erika)
Finding Your Own Space as a Digital Nomad Couple with Anh Tuan and Erika
There are a million articles online about becoming a digital nomad, where to work, where to sleep, how to travel when you’re a parent… But there’s little on how to be a couple that’s constantly on the move. Together.
Anh Tuan and Erika hate being labeled as a couple. ‘Hate’ is a strong word, but they mean it. Both of them already spend most of their day together working online as book publishers and infopreneurs. In the evening they go to local events, often the same ones, and often meet the same people. Then they travel to new destinations - that’s a whole one day, sometimes two, of just being with each other 100% of the time!
That’s a lot and that’s why both loved Digital Nomads Korea. The weekly events of the community let them meet people by themselves, instead of as an inseparable duo.
Why did you decide to work remotely in Korea?
Erika: I started watching Korean dramas seven or ten years ago, so I was very interested in Korea and its culture early on. I went in 2022, barely a year after becoming a digital nomad. , I was so curious about how life was there! It wasn’t hard to convince Anh Tuan (laughs).
Anh Tuan: She said « Let’s go to Korea » and I said, « ok ! ». I didn’t know what to expect and I didn’t try to figure it out. I knew about the conflict with North Korea and that South Korea was very good at tech. That’s all. I fell in love with it as soon as we got there.
Your first trip was in 2022 before the Digital Nomads Korea (DNK) community was born?
Erika: Yes. We stayed a month and we traveled there more like tourists than nomads back then. We were just curious and there wasn’t much of a digital nomad community to connect with.
Anh Tuan: What’s funny is that, just after our trip, we headed to Thailand, and by some sort of funny coincidence, we met Jeong. We were talking about how cool the digital community in Chiang Mai is, and how we felt like there should be something similar in Korea. Jeong said, «Yeah, I’m planning to start meetups ».
So you decided to come back, a year later, to see what Seoul as a digital nomad would be like…
Anh Tuan: Exactly. We were excited to see how daily life in Seoul would be. We decided to stay for three months, with visa exemptions. The digital nomad community was growing a lot on WhatsApp, and it was easy to find coworkings and colivings.
Erika: We loved our experience so much that we are already planning to return for three months, starting next August! I think we’ll mostly stay in Seoul, but I’d love to try the Hoppin workations in other parts of the country if there’s any this autumn!
Did you start your digital nomad life as a couple?
Anh Tuan: Yes, which is pretty rare. Most digital nomads are single, and those who aren’t often met while traveling. We started our journey together, on August 17th, 2021 - it’s our digital nomad anniversary (laughs). It wasn’t my first experience abroad. I was an expat in a few countries before that. After two years of being stuck during lockdown, I just wanted to live and travel around again.
Erika: I wanted this lifestyle longer. I met a digital nomad couple in France, a few years ago, and I started following them on social media. Their life seemed so cool, that I started dreaming about doing the same. I took on a job I could do on the move and we were lucky, I think, that our desires and careers just aligned then.
What are the biggest advantages and inconveniences of being a digital nomad couple?
Erika: For me, the biggest benefit is that you always have someone you can lean on when you’re down or going through challenges. You experience so many new things when you start traveling: you meet new people, discover new landscapes, visit new cities… It’s nice to have someone with whom you can share, truly, those new feelings.
Anh Tuan: It’s also a great support system. A lot of nomads are alone so they don’t have immediate support. They have to seek it out by making friends and that can take time. We have immediate companionship which is nice. But it’s challenging for us sometimes to deal with how we're perceived or how we perceive ourselves because we see each other all the time. As a digital nomad, there’s no family dinner, no big gathering with your long-time friends, or after-work evenings with your colleagues. We share a home (a different home every time), we travel together (sometimes for 1 or 2 days and we’re full-time together - can get stressful and we have to deal with all that together), we eat together, we work together (often at home, for logistics it’s just easier)...
How do you not get sick of each other? (laughs)
Anh Tuan: It’s true that the hours you spend together just add up a lot (laughs). It's a very different couple dynamic to a sedentary life. The trick is trying to find the balance. It’s an ever-changing target because it changes every time we go somewhere new.
Erika: What I find the hardest is to get your own space. Especially if, like us, you’re two very independent people. You constantly need to be careful of finding a balance between doing things together and having your circle of friends, your activities, and your time. We’ve talked a lot about that. Especially for me, it was a problem. I hate being labeled as ‘the couple’. I want to be seen as an individual. It takes extra effort to be seen as separate people.
Anh Tuan: I think we’ve gotten a lot better at getting our own space but it takes us a while to get there every time we move somewhere new. That’s why we went to the Digital Nomads Korea meetup at Tap Public the first week we got to Korea. It was great as a booster for both of us. There were enough people that we could split up and talk with different groups.
You did go to Digital Nomads Korea meetups nearly every week…
Erika: I even messaged the DNK Whatsapp group once, to say that I was grateful for the meetups. It was just so great to have a regular event to go to to meet new people - including Koreans! There are international digital nomads, of course, but there are also so many locals who are curious about our lifestyle. I met many friends through these evenings…
Anh Tuan: One thing I liked about the meetups was that they were in calm bars. It made the whole experience quite flexible because you can move around and talk to more people. Digital nomad meetups in Asia are almost always dinners and it makes the interaction difficult sometimes. You have to sit, eat, and talk with your close neighbors. You’re kind of stuck.
But you’re also super active in the online community!
Erika: I want to keep in touch with the community even when I’m abroad. I love Korea so much. Leaving was hard actually. I was kind of sad the first few weeks I got back to Thailand this year.
Anh Tuan: I was very active in the DNK Whatsapp group from the start, and then I helped open the Discord server. I've been one of the moderators there since. I love that I can give feedback on how I think the community could evolve, or advice on the tools we could use to make it a nicer place. Jeong always listens to what I have to say (sometimes we agree and sometimes not) and we can have conversations about it. It feels great to participate in helping shape this community. The whole online presence is well done. It was so practical to gather info on where to eat and what to do. I’m always talking about having a support system and this was a very good one.
What was your biggest challenge in Korea?
Anh Tuan: Oh that one is for you, Erika! We have a system (laughs). She takes care of the accommodation and I take care of how we get to places.
Erika: Yeah, there weren’t many places for couples. Most apartments were for single people, or double the price for couples even though the space would be the same. There were also many accommodations asking for the resident card (ARC) and a huge deposit - more than 4.000 and 8.000 euros!
Anh Tuan: The huge deposit was definitely an issue. So instead, we focused on places tailored for nomads (there weren't many). You get an instant community and support system. It’s nice to have a shared space, shared activities… We loved discovering Seoul and Korea with our housemates. For some of them, it was the first time they were coming. Others had been here often and some people were locals. It was kind of a perfect mix. It was an incredible opportunity to be able to talk and get the insights of locals like we did in our coliving. In other countries, it’s so much harder, especially in Asia.
What about the thing you liked the most?
Anh Tuan: I loved doing things in Korea. For example, wearing a hanbok in a palace. That was a funny experience.
Erika: And we went taking pictures in photo booths so often! With people from the Digital Nomads Korea community, with our coliving housemates, for my birthday… I love all those physical memories we have of our best nights - the group outings, the karaoke, the parties.
And what about being a couple in Korea? Korea has such a specific dating culture. Did it affect you?
Anh Tuan: (laughs) It was funny to see the matching clothes of Korean couples, the photo booths with cute accessories, and just the way they act with each other. It was so different. Usually, it’s not that obvious, it’s a more private thing. In Korea, it’s everywhere. You have couples holidays, targeted merchandising… It’s so public!
Erika: Honestly, it made me feel a bit alien sometimes (laughs). It’s so far away from the way I see things, especially when I see how possessive Koreans can be compared to French people. A friend of mine was telling me a story once. She and one of her male colleagues were going home after a company dinner. They were both going in the same direction - but suddenly he was saying “Oh, no, I’m sorry, I can’t go with you. I have a girlfriend.” He went the opposite way to make a big detour on purpose because he wanted to make sure there was no possible confusion. And I see my Korean friends: they’re constantly texting, “What are you doing”, “Is everything ok”... I was like, wow, this is another world!
Anh Tuan & Erika’s recommendations
☕️ A cafe to chill with a view
Noop Cafe is one of my favorite places. It’s a nice place to chill and it’s got a beautiful view of the city and Namsan. I love it. (Erika)
🖥 A PC bang for esport culture
Optimum Zone PC Cafe, it’s a great internet cafe to explore the video game and esports side of Korean culture. You can order food from your chair and it’s directly brought to you! (Anh Tuan)
📺 A TV show to discover Seoul
Itaewon Class, it’s such a great intro to Korea, which happens in one of the famous neighborhoods of Seoul. And you need to listen to the songs! Anh Tuan loves listening to ‘Start Over’ by Gaho to motivate himself when he works. (Erika)
