Ready to travel? Which destination would you like to know more? All blog posts are based on my travel experiences, which span more than 18 years. I enjoy slow travel. I often revisited destinations and stayed longer than a month (sometimes longer than six months). I traveled to more than 55 countries so far, but […]
Traveling the world broaden my view of the world. And I realized, how luck I was. To little Jiyeon, the four walls of my home was my entire world. As I grew up, my world got bigger to my neighborhood and school, and eventually to my city Seoul. Suddenly South Korea was extended to the
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“What did you study in college?” I asked my friend Anna, who’s currently working as a freelance communications specialist. “English literature.” It was unexpected. I’ve known her through my professional network and because she’s awesome at her job, so I always assumed that she studied communication or international relations. This brief conversation gave me the
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Female Solo Travel. You Can Do It Too. Travel alone as a woman can be overwhelming, especially if this is your first time. I get questions like ‘Aren’t you afraid?’, ‘How can you travel alone?’, ‘How do you keep yourself safe?’, ‘Aren’t you lonely?’, and the classic ‘Why do you travel alone?’ all the time.
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It’s been six years! That’s right, March 2016 is the month of Runaway Juno’s sixth blogversary. Do you remember what the world was like six years ago? That was when smartphones were starting to become more common. I was using iPhone 3, and Apple came out with iPhone 4 that year. Twitter and Facebook took
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Hiking to the highest peak on Easter Island Four hundred thousand years ago there were two volcanic islands. Then, there was an eruption. Terevaka came in between the two peaks, Rano Kau and Poike, and filled the blank. That activity created the shape of island we know now, just like cookie dough connecting together in
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Big News! As I’ve announced through my newsletter, I’m going back to Korea! I left Seoul on Dec 6th 2011 and haven’t return to Korea since. My first destination was Hong Kong. For the last 14 months I’ve traveled to 23 countries (20 new, 3 revisited) jumping from Asia to North America to
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“Be consistent” Is the number one advice from most of the leading bloggers. Meaning, be consistence and predictive in scheduling for your readers. Make a routine and stick to it; after all, we are all living under a certain routine everyday. I’ve been trying to be consistence as much as possible,
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Find Yours… I Found Mine. Exactly one year ago, I took my first step as a full-time travel blogger. So what’s before that? Exactly a week earlier, I was a full-time mechanical Engineer who worked for a big corporation in Korea. I was simply unhappy. And the moment came, I decided to
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One year ago today, I turn my life around. Yep, it’s my one-year anniversary. A second birthday, if you will. I said good-bye to my little cubic farm, put my backpack on and left. I used to plan the moment with my friend, shooting glitter gun at the doorstep of the
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