She moved to Seoul to build a new life — and learned how to feel comfortable being alone

Tech Insider : Travel, Business
A woman posing in front of cherry blossom trees.
Stéphanie Guillaume left Switzerland and moved to South Korea in 2022.

Stéphanie Guillaume.

Inside my Olive Young skincare and K-beauty fever dream

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An image of Olive Young Seongsu's storefront.
Olive Young's Seongsu outlet is a multi-story beauty and skincare paradise. I went in with a budget and shopping list to keep me on track.

Cheryl Teh

My wallet and I took a trip into the heart of the K-pop photocard business machine. We barely survived.

Tech Insider : Business
A street photo of Pocaspot Myeongdong.
I looked up guides on where to go to get photocards, and Pocaspot Myeongdong kept coming up on TikTok. I had to go there immediately.

Cheryl Teh

Seoul's $322 million gambit to save the city from crushing loneliness won't fix the source of its problems

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
People sitting before the city skyline and Han River in Seoul.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said in October that it would be pouring 451.3 billion won, or $322 million, to combat the loneliness epidemic gripping the city.

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Photos show the heaviest November snowfall in 100 years blanketing South Korea and causing chaos

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Workers clean snow in front of the statue of King Sejong at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.
Workers clean snow in front of the statue of King Sejong at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, South Korea.

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon

She felt trapped in her corporate job in NYC, so she quit and moved to South Korea. Now, she lives alone in a $640-a-month loft.

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A top-down view of the living area, as viewed from the loft.
Chen Teng's loft-style apartment in Seoul.

Chen Teng.

A US Army private who tried to flee to North Korea will plead guilty to desertion and other criminal charges, his lawyer says

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A man walks past a television showing a Korean news broadcast featuring a photo of US soldier Travis King.
A man walks past a television showing a Korean news broadcast featuring a photo of US soldier Travis King.

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I stayed in a stand-alone suite on a busy bridge in Seoul. It was pricier than a 5-star hotel and noisy, but views of the river were stunning.

Tech Insider : Travel
Sky Suite Hangang Bridge in Seoul, South Korea
Sky Suite, a hotel room perched on a bridge in Seoul, was a collaboration between the government and Airbnb.

Raphael Rashid

7 creative ways hot destinations are combating overtourism, from obstructing views to etiquette violation fines

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel
Left: A sculpture shaped like a giant mouse trap with an ice-cream cone on one end and text that reads
Destinations around the world are finding unique ways to deter tourists.

Courtesy of newsfromtoolate/Instagram; KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images

South Korea's military fires on border islands for the first time in 7 years as a North Korean missile fails and the balloon war rages on

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South Korean Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) fire rockets during a joint live firing drill between South Korea and the US at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, 65 kms northeast of Seoul, on April 26, 2017
A 2017 drill showing South Korean MLRS in action. Similar weapons were used in the drills conducted Wednesday, per South Korean media.

JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images

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