I was living in an apartment in my home city of Seoul, South Korea, but I had always wanted to live abroad (says Jaekyoung Lee, 32). In 2019 I met my partner, Gi, who is British and had already been in South Korea for a year working in talent acquisition for a tech company. We dated for a year and then decided to move in together and take the plunge — first we went to Bristol, which is where he comes from. I had anticipated a brand-new start on the other side of the world and a culture shock, but I wasn’t prepared for what I actually found. That’s because, unfortunately, we ended up moving to Britain a week before the first Covid lockdown,

Source: The Times January 16, 2024 16:31 UTC