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Korean Balcony Transformation: Kid Playground! Pandemic Playground!

2020/07/20 / Nic / 0 Comments

Our first big project in our new place!

I’m starting to come around to the idea of these types of balconies… I wasn’t much of a fan in the beginning, but as it’s monsoon season in Korea at the moment, I can see the benefits. Originally I desperately wanted real outside space and a lot of the time I had seen these enclosed balconies just become storage areas and they seemed a bit pointless. But giving the space a real purpose makes all the difference.

Of course our priority in our life is our two-year-old son, so I knew early on that this would become a play area for him. I wanted to make him a mini backyard with the things I enjoyed when I was a child: a sandpit, swimming pool and a slide.

While this pandemic goes on it’s important to have areas inside for kids to play in. While Korea has not had a lockdown and things are okay at the moment, we don’t know what the future will bring.

In our video we explain our thinking and process and show you as we get all the stuff and set it up! And of course we surprise our son!

New Seoul Apartment Tour

2020/07/20 / Nic / 0 Comments

We show you our new apartment!

After living in a tiny Seoul apartment for 4 years we finally move to a much bigger one that’s still in the same neighbourhood! We searched for months and months and saw a huge range of apartments in our price range and we knew there had to be a hidden gem out there somewhere!

In this video we show you our new apartment and explain how we can afford an $800,000 apartment without actually paying that much. Getting space this big in Seoul is usually very expensive but we had space as our top priority. As we explain in the video, we were fine with some other not as great aspects, just so we could have space. This apartment seems to be never be remodeled so there are a lot of things we want to change but we are excited about those projects. We will also be making lots of videos about that as well.

There are also lots of great things about our apartment besides from just space. The enclosed balcony for example, and the traditional Korean paper style windows and doors. Hopefully in about a year’s time we will do another apartment tour and show all the things we have changed.

How to deal with THAT MASK LIFE

2020/06/29 / Nic / 0 Comments

Masks are vital for stopping the spread of Covid-19

We’ve known how important masks are in Asia for quite a while, as they are not just used for disease prevention, but for air pollution and even fashion.

Now the science is showing just how important they are in slowing the spread of Covid-19. While it can give some protection to the wearer, the most important thing is that it stops asymptomatic spread. There can be so many people within a population who have Covid but have no symptoms. It can be easily spread through droplets of moisture that come out of our mouth and nose while we talk. Even a simple cloth mask prevents these droplets. When a whole population wears maks while out, it is the easiest way to deal with this pandemic until a vaccine is hopefully made.

We better get used to living with masks! It may be weird or scary for those in countries where they aren’t used to wearing masks, but it’s quite simple and has other benefits beyond pandemic related ones. Masks have always been used in many professions too, so it’s not that unusual to wear one, and it is not going to make you sick. Finding one that suits your face does help though. In the video I show some some different types of masks in Korea and which ones I prefer. I also talk about how to wear makeup and glasses with a mask, and how to deal with annoying mask acne.

I’m sure there will be more videos on masks later so please ask questions over on YouTube if there are other aspects of mask wearing you’d like us to talk about.

Seoul Apartment Moving Vlog

2020/06/25 / Nic / 0 Comments

Moving is extremely stressful and unfortunately we made it even more stressful!

In this video we show footage of our move, and talk about what we did wrong, and what we did right…

Finding a new apartment in Seoul

2020/05/26 / Nic / 0 Comments

We search for a new apartment in Seoul

In this video we talk about the different types of homes in our area of Seoul and our search for a new apartment. Korea has a very unique renting system, which we explain as well.

People had a lot of questions so we followed up with this video answering some of them:

We will be moving soon so stay tuned for some moving vlogs and some videos about adjusting to our bigger place.

Amazing sites to see in Andong

2020/04/30 / Nic / 0 Comments

We recently visited Andong to make a video for Andong Tourism. We had never been as a family to Andong so it was nice to get out of Seoul for 2 days. Korea has no lockdowns or travel restrictions within the country. The three places we saw were absolutely beautiful and I’d love to go back in the future to explore more. Yul also enjoyed everywhere we went and it made me happy to see him enjoying nature and historical sites.

We also stayed in Hanok accommodation and you can see our tour of it in this video. We didn’t want to stay at a motel or hotel because there may be a lot of people, so this accommodation ended up being perfect . There was also a secret room!

Answering your questions