Feeling professionally burned out after turning 30, Jennifer Barclay had a hankering to experience something different. But after quitting her job and moving to South Korea with her boyfriend, she soon found life in Seoul lonely and bewildering. Desperate to connect with Korean life and people, she wandered the country alone, where the people's kindness and pride in their culture slowly began to work its magic.
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Jennifer Barclay has written on travel, culture and books for the Korea Herald, the Globe and Mail and The East and is a regular contributor to the blog www.londonkoreanlinks.net. Co-editor of AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds, she has lived in several countries and is now based in West Sussex.
ISBN 9781862547971
CATEGORY Biography/Autobiography/True Stories
PAGE COUNT 288
DIMENSIONS 198 x 129 mm
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'It is high time that a new book be written about Korea, and Jennifer Barclay's fresh, amusing and light-hearted take on the country seems to be precisely the right approach.' - Simon Winchester