How I ended up in South Korea 🇰🇷❤️ I got this question quite often but never really answered it in detail in one of my posts.. so here we go 😄 In 2019 I reached a career level I always dreamed of and focused on.. I worked in one of the biggest companies in a dream position with all freedoms you can imagine, with an amazing team and interesting tasks every day. I was very happy, just became an aunt that time, saw my family often, had great friends around me and have been in a relationship back in Germany 🇩🇪 But there was this one thought that didn’t leave my head no matter how much I tried to ignore it: The wish of moving abroad for some time in my life. ✈️ And one day I realized, it will never be the “right” time if I continue to postpone it for my career and my family and friends or a boyfriend. So I made the decision to take a sabbatical and leave for a year - if not now, when? I thought about my options, thought about Canada, South America, other Asian countries - but in the end decided to go to South Korea, as I loved Korean food, wanted to move to a very safe country (to calm down my mother’s worries) and I’ve been looking for a real challenge with a new language and culture so different from everything I knew at that point. 🙌🏼 Fast forward to November 2021 - I just moved here, totally overwhelmed with everything, already frustrated with language barriers and then my best friend in Germany just saw my then boyfriend on tinder - 4 days after crying at the airport when letting me go.. So I made another decision: Do I regret moving here and see it as the reason that this relationship broke and give up on this adventure before it even started? Or do I see it as a new start, try to focus on myself, on my studies, focus on what I want and what I can make out of this opportunity? I guess we all know what I decided to do.. I studied the language every day, solo travelled through South Korea, found self love and my “Seoul”mate and decided to stay in Korea. Sure it’s not easy and there are still many hurdles I have to take daily, but I’m genuinely happy where I am right now. ❤️ #korea #expat #southkorea #seoul #seoulmate #korean #lifeinkorea