Just a Jeju Girl

Merry Christmas! While I was journaling and writing new year's resolutions in the cafe, on Christmas day, I've decided I wanted to do an episode about the lessons I had learned in 2025.  2025 was both tough and amazing year. And it taught me so many lessons that I'm gonna share with you in this episode.    Being unemployed for 8 months was depressing and it gave many lessons like I’m not capable of being content with life when I’m not working. Whatever the industry I’m working, I NEED to work for my mental health. Also, anyone who is working is absoloutely beautiful, regardless of where you’re working, you’re position there, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL Having a sensible, suppportive, unproblematic coworker is such a blessing. You can tolerate the work itself. But you can barley cope with humans who aren’t mature enough to work with other human beings. Money can be almost everything in this crazy capitalistic world where we’re living in. I always hated it when grown ups being obssessed with money. But sadely and unevitable I became one of them lol. Having finacial issue is so emotionally drainig and depressing. And it’s even an embrassing to share this issue even with your friend since being poor can be seem pitty and powerless. Never sacrafice your physical & emotional health to money. Yes I’ve already admitted that money means almost everything in this modern world. But damn, it’s never as important as your body and brain. Even you’re going through hardest time of your life, always give yourself a chance and time to enjoy life. Even the most small, stupid thing can make you happy, and if you don’t give up on that little joy in life, you can overcome anything without being mean to yourself. Happiness doesn’t require lot of things anyway tbh Your relationship with yourself really projects your relationship with others. Be nice to yourself. Be kind to yourself. Don’t stop telling yourself that you’re doing fine, and you’re capable of doing anything. You should be your own best friend and best partner. You can keep your health with the most boring, simple, well known tactics. 1. Eat well. 2. Excercise reguarly. + have meaningful connection with people you love. I hope everyone had a great christmas day, gonna have a peacful Christams holidays. Hope we can see you soon next week too! Thanks for listening again :)   Merry Christmas! x

"Your success in life higly depends on how wisely you spend your time alone" What my coworker said to me on the other day clicked my head and it made me look back to myself in the past where I couldn't find happiness and stability in myself. I was constantly looking for someone to be around me, listens to me talking, to support me even tho I knew they weren't worth of my time and effort. I've worked on myself to be 'happily alone' since then, and honestly I'm still working on it and it's still hard. But now I'm finding myself to gradually improve and getting more support and love from myself not the others.  In this episode, I've shared with my personal experience of coping lonliness, finding way to wisely spend my time alone. At the end, all I want is that I want to be someone who chooses me, who always prioritise myself. But of course, not in the selfish way.   Thank you so much for listening again! Hope we can see you soon too :D

Since I've been reading 'The Let them Theory' by Mel robbins, I just loved her authenticity being honest about her past self. Being a bad parent, jealous friend, annoying wife not being able to be consistent and procrastinates. So that motivated me to reveal about my failures and mitakes in my life. But while I was talking today, I realised those failures lead to my life, myself right now which I'm very proud of. They were my teachers to make me more improve, motivate me to work on myself. Exposing such failures and mistakes in my life in public is frankly embrassing, but I felt absolutely liberating and content while recording because now I know that I've never gave up or quit on myself. This episode consists of very personal anecdotes but I hope it'll make you feel better about your failures and mistakes in your life as well.  Again, thank you so much for listening!

One of the most shocking experiences of aging is that you DO change. The way you think, the way you used to think about that person, that circumsatances... also, things that you thought it is important. In this episode, I shared with my past obsessions the things that I used to believe is important but not anymore. Looks, Friends, Unnecessary worries about the future, job titles... And now, I wonder about what myself, 10 years from now on, will think about the things that NOW I think it's important.    Thank you for listening! 

Since I becamse a full time job worker, I couldn't stop questioning about Korean work ethic and how Korean ppl are handling jobs, working style in general. And while I was talking to my several international friends, Koreans seem to have very little holidays, less generosity when it comes to individual's life/health conditions, having to work till late time became common sense in some industry... etc So I wanted to share my experience and thoughts about this topic with you. Hope you've enjoyed! Thanks for listening again :D

Born and raised in Jeju Isalnd, been living in the UK 2 yrs, 1 yr in Japan... Most of my life was in an Island.  My foundamental indentity, personality is mostly came from my identity as 'Jeju person' even more than South Korean. For me, I can't imagine what kind of person would I turn out if I hadn't lived in Islands.  In this episode, I talk about my life was an Islander, how I started my own podcast, and just a little bit about my life in general :)