Just a Jeju Girl

I remember It was almost impossible for me to accept that not everyone can like you. If there’s someone who likes you for no specific reason, there must be someone who dislikes you for no specific reason. Now come to think of it, I guess I was trying to fill the void of my weak point by getting validations from other people.  I wanted to share this insight, my journey of me getting better and gett...

In the book (<the myth of normal> by Garbor Maté) I’m reading recently, it talked about the reason why people should be vulnerable and why it’s essential to let your kids vulnerable. Also letting them know how to handle that moment of being vulnerable. Basically it conversely emphasis a disastrous outcome of if you don’t let your kid to be vulnerable, “they will cease to relate to life as in...

Sometimes I feel like I’m not living in the real world because I was immersed in the Internet world without knowing you never know until you actually experience it. Internet is an essential tool for everybody who’s living in 2026, but also it can easily affect u in a very toxic way because sometimes it provokes u to feel anxious, nervous and worried which might lead u to be a complete coward who’s...

Being in an enviornment where you have to communicate in 3 languages was my dream and it is absolutely exciting of course, but the more I spent some time and days at work, I can’t deny the fact that I’m discovering so many weak points of my language skills both in English and Japanese (sometimes in Korean too lol)  So I started to be genuinely worried and lost about how am I going to improve both...

In a loving memory of my mum Yeoun Jung (1967-2022), the most amazing and beautiful mother in the world. 

Recently, I deleted my last remaining social account and ironically I found myself being more comfortable, content and calm in everyday life.  so I decided to share this unique experience(Cus now there’s literally almost no one who doesn’t have ANY social accounts) to my listeners and be open about my own experience of social media and why I eventually deleted all of my social media accounts in 20...

I’ve moved to Tokyo! And I’m very excited to share this crazy news to my listeners and talk about my life basically moving around all around the places.  Although it’s my second time to move to Japan, I still struggle with fear and anxiety that comes with a big transition in life. But I’ve already made up my mind to accept whatever that happened to me and move on, and ultimately never give up.  Ag...

In this episode, I’m joined by my two wonderful friends as guests to talk about what it’s like to have a multicultural background—growing up speaking multiple languages and living in different countries. It was also my first time recording in a professional podcast studio, and to celebrate my friend Astrid’s first visit to South Korea, I thought it would be a memorable experience for her to record...

As a person who was born in 1998, in South Korea, it's a huge lie if you've never been a fan of K-pop. And as person who experieced 2010s K-pop (aka the Golden era of K-pop lol) when they were middle to high school student, it's really hard to NOT compare the "good old days" of K-pop and the current 3-4th generation of K-pop. In this episode, I spoke very honestly about that comparison and my very...

Simply put, I quit my job today. And it feels really weird. Not only because of dealing and processing about what had happenend in that job, I was facing with life-changing choice that I had chose few days ago and ngl I was pretty much overwhelmed and scared about the next chapter. In just one day, I had to process all that complex, unique feelings that I had never experienced.  Today's episode is...

今回のエピソードは、将来、子供ができたときに教えてあげたいこと、アドバイスしたいことについて話しました！韓国と日本の違いもあると思うので、楽しく聞いていただけると嬉しいです！

Today's episode about my personal growth regarding 'confidence'  Which was a long journey for me to be actually confident OR to PRETEND to be confident. And as a person who always struggled to be confident about myself, I think what I learned from going through a job interview in a language that is not my native langauge gave me a bit of a courage and clarity that I've came this far, and "shouldn'...

今回のポッドキャストは、韓国在住の日本人の友達と日本と韓国の話について話してみました！お互いの国についてどう思うか、韓国と日本に住んでみてどう感じたかについて話しているので、韓国に住んでみたい方、または日本に住んでみたい方が聞くと韓国と日本について知っていただけると思います！あくまでも個人間での見解ですので、気楽に聞いていただけると嬉しいです！

<You’re on your own, kid>_always gives me courage to live, listens to it wheneve I’m scared about life. ”I didn’t choose this town, I dream of getting out.” ”You’re on your own, kid. You always have been.” ”I gave my blood sweat and tears for this I hosted parties and starved my body Like I'd be saved by a perfect kiss” ”Everything you lose is a step you take” ”Take the moment and taste it Y...

https://www.mk.co.kr/en/society/11985142   Recently, I came across to this news saying that Korean women are among the most well-traveled women in the world. And honestly, I'm not surprised! And as Korean, I could definitely can see why this was happening (although personally I can't fully believe this news). I think it's because there's a social / peer pressure that domestic tour is waste of time...

The people who left my life, and the people I have yet to meet— where do passing connections and lingering longing go? My small wisdom cannot know. The only thing I know is how to keep living.   - yong pil Cho, <Song of the wind>   1. not every relationship ends because someone did something wrong 2. sometimes time itself changes the relationship 3. people grow in different directions   Love...

I guess at the end, what we really wanted is to be loved and to be understood by someone who matters.

I’ve always felt things very deeply. For most of my life, that meant emotional highs and lows that felt overwhelming — joy that felt infinite, sadness that felt permanent, anger that felt defining. As someone who is emotionally wired by nature, I used to believe that whatever I was feeling in the moment was the truth. And sometimes, I made decisions purely based on that truth — only to regret them...

Before I applied, the challenge challenged me first. This episode is about the quiet resistance that comes before action — the hesitation, the shrinking, the voice that asks, “Who do you think you are?” When I considered applying to a large, well-established company, I didn’t feel excitement at first. I felt small. I wondered if it would be inappropriate, even disrespectful, for someone like me to...

Referenced TED talk in this episode <Are you a giver or taker? by Adam Grant> : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXRYgjQXX0   In this episode, I start with a comment my supervisor casually made about me — that I seem smart, but if you really look closely, I’m kind of a fool. He probably didn’t mean it seriously. But the words stayed with me longer than I expected. Because sometimes, I wonder...

I think it's really hard for grown ups living in 2026, to be fully conscious, have the awarness, creatical thinking without these tools, which is 1. Smartphone 2. Computer 3. Internet 4. AI, myself included of course. And I had so much emotional burden to organise my plans like the full time job + extra big-scale project that I'm recently working on. And I became even more  dependent on AI cus sim...

Everytime big or small of things happen to me, it's hard to get rid of the feeling that 'uncertainty is overwhelming' but after I encountered one specific episode of the podcast, <School of Greatness>, I came upon with a expression, "Apprecitation of Uncertainty" So sorry I couldn't find a link of that episode, but bascially she was trying to say that people should have more apprecitation of...

One of my favourite things about my life is that I have amazing group of friends. They make me want to be a better person for them, they make me laugh, they entertain me, they makes me cry when I need a really good cry. My experience of friendship has changed darastically from adolescence to adult years. And personally I loved adult friendships compare to my adolescence friendships and I wanted to...

As a person who were always called as a 'bright kid' a 'positive/optimisstic' one for almost all of my life, I've discovered that those who are bright or the opposite personality is a perennial trait. I started to feel like maybe some people are born happy or born sad. Which means that having such perosnality is highly inherited. It sounds absolutely unfair, but as I searched for a scientific proo...