my experience living in South Korea

After four three-month stays (about a year), he criticizes Korea’s congested roads, constant honking, aggressive driving, and limited car-color variety. He describes blunt customer service, intrusive public behavior, relentless sales noise, military visibility, smog, and repetitive concrete high-rises as stressful. Although he liked barbecue, kimchi, safety, and traditional sites, Korea’s months-long confinement made him appreciate Britain’s quietness, greenery, and architecture.

Extended East Asian travel increasingly redirects him toward Britain as the preferred home base.