• When Stéphanie Guillaume realized two years had passed in a job she didn't enjoy, she decided to start over. • In 2022, she left Switzerland to fulfill her long-held dream of living in South Korea. • Now, she's self-employed and lives in a studio apartment near Seoul Forest.
Stéphanie Guillaume visited South Korea for the first time when she was 22. She spent 10 days there with two friends, and the moment she arrived in Seoul, the capital, it felt like home.
When she returned to Lausanne, Switzerland, where she grew up, she told her mother that she wanted to live in South Korea one day.
It wasn't until a decade later, in 2022, that Guillaume finally turned her dream into reality. All it took was a single conversation with a friend, who had asked her what she was doing in Switzerla

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