The humble life of the Bushmen Around the corner of the big boulder field near the Erongo Mountains, there they were, making ostrich egg jewelry and hunting arrows. They lift their head up, quietly smiled, and showed interests to the strangely dressed visitors. There was no border that indicated their property, but it felt like […]
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You can feel it when you are with the right kind of people. The positive energy filling in the room is hard to miss. It’s a powerful feeling. That’s the first impression I got from meeting the AWE participants. When we had the organizers and speakers’ meeting for the first time on Friday morning, I
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Today, I’m officially entering the next phase of my life. That’s right, I’m turning 30! Yikes. I’ve been thinking about this day for last five months, being afraid, and it finally came. I was worried, concerned, and regretted how many things I haven’t done. But hey, there are more days to come, right? I
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My latest ambitious project, the Asian Women’s Empowerment Conference is this week. The idea was simple: to inspire people. In spite of a clear objective, however, the journey has been rough. As a non-professional-event-organizer who’s also not-from-KL (the event venue), I’ve encountered unforeseen obstacles all along the way. Some of these challenges came from
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While I was packing for my upcoming trip, I realized how much we all have changed. These days I travel with a laptop, a digital camera, and a smartphone. This pretty much covers my can’t-live-without gadgets. Here is a list of the equipment I used to travel with; I hope you enjoy looking back
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For the last four weeks in Seoul, my time has been filled with eating, thinking, talking, sleeping, working, and catching up. I came back to Seoul after a hard time in India, and a simultaneous (and uncomfortable) realization about my future. It is my only hometown, but also this is where I had to go
“How did you get into this business?” This is one of the most common questions I get whenever I meet new people. Given my job and my lifestyle, I’m not someone they typically encounter on a day to day basis. I don’t have a permanent residence (although I’m trying to change this), and even though
Where Everything Began Read More »
In the era of long-term travel and anti-consumerism, owning or wanting things is considered to be super lame. People romanticize the ability to put everything in one bag and travel the world for years. Because they know it’s hard. Also buying new gadgets can be realistically impossible for freelancers if you are living by bipolar
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Rishikesh: The Best Sanctuary for All During two full months of my Indian adventure, Rishikesh was one of the only places that I felt comfortable. When I posted ‘I’m Having a Hard Time in India’, people who’ve previously been to India strongly suggested me to go to Rishikesh to rest for a while. After coming
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I’m not the most adventurous person you’ll meet. It’s not so glamorous thing to say, but it’s the truth. I consider myself courageous, but my bar was very low as an ordinary Korean nerd who was brought up in a conservative family. Spending night in the mountains to photograph stars was considered a behavior of
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