"I was like, that's a good question. I don't have an answer for it,"
"I wasn't satisfied with my life,"
"I just realized that time passed, and I was like, oh my God, it's going to be two years here, and I don't even like this job."
"I had class every day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The rest of the day was spent on homework,"
Stéphanie Guillaume first visited South Korea at 22 and felt instantly at home in Seoul. After returning to Lausanne she kept the desire to live in South Korea. A decade later, in 2022, she left an unsatisfying sales job and a prior digital-marketing role that ended when the company went bankrupt. With no partner or children she applied for a student visa through a language program and moved seven months later. She enrolled at Kookmin University, attended daily classes, practiced writing, reading, and grammar, found an apartment and a roommate from class, and took months to settle into her new life.
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