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Enjoy exploring our insights, recipes, and helpful tips and tricks from My Expat Moments. Living abroad can bring about unwanted emotions of culture shock, isolation, and loneliness. Connecting with others living a similar lifestyle can help eliminate unhealthy behaviors and calm negative thoughts.

We are an online expat wellness community that talks openly about living abroad. We offer holistic solutions to some of the common challenges expats face. Comment on the blogs, join our active (and fun!) community on social media, and talk with expats from around the world!

Living Abroad

There are many common thoughts & emotions among expats who living abroad. We talk through these & discuss how to navigate and cope with the changes, so you feel settled in your new home.

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Health & Fitness

Staying healthy looks different for foreigners. We offer ideas to improve or maintain your mental & physical health while living abroad.

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Cooking Abroad

Cooking in a different country comes with its own set of unique challenges. Our recipes use interchangeable whole-food ingredients and are designed to help keep expats healthy.

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Life in South Korea

We share real-life stories & experiences of expats living in East Asia. Learn about the fascinating cultural differences & what has kept us happy & healthy living in this part of the world.

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Unique Career Paths for Aspiring Digital Nomads

By Kari / March 7, 2024
In today’s interconnected world, the concept of a digital nomad has gained significant popularity. The allure of working remotely from exotic locations while exploring new cultures has drawn many to this lifestyle. While the term often conjures images of freelance…
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Unique Career Paths for Aspiring Digital Nomads

Choosing the Right Business Entity For Your Startup

By Kari / February 15, 2024
Starting a business and learning how to create a startup is an exciting venture. When selecting a business structure, it is important to analyze what competitors have chosen, consider the tax implications, and know the pros and cons of each…
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Choosing the Right Business Entity For Your Startup

Why Should I Take Out Expat Health Insurance?

By Kari / November 8, 2022
Moving abroad to live or work, discovering new cultures and people… Expatriation is a memorable experience of a lifetime. Expatriation requires preparation in advance, you cannot improvise it. In this preparation, international expat health insurance is essential and should not…
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Why Should I Take Out Expat Health Insurance?

Living Overseas: 5 Things I Would Tell My Baby Expat Self

By Kari / October 22, 2022
We’re very excited to feature a guest blogger by the name of Anna (IG: expatanna) on My Expat Moments. Anna Luzader was born and raised in Cleveland, Tennessee, but has spent most of her adult life working and living overseas….
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Living Overseas: 5 Things I Would Tell My Baby Expat Self

Getting Around South Korea: A Beginners’ Guide to Seoul Subway & Train Systems

By Kari / January 11, 2022
Moving to a foreign city is further complicated by the fact that you don’t know how to get yourself around. Thankfully, transportation in South Korea is relatively easy using the Seoul subway and train system once you know where to…
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Getting Around South Korea: A Beginners’ Guide to Seoul Subway & Train Systems

An Expat’s Guide to Food Delivery in South Korea

By Kari / September 9, 2021
It’s no lie that online shopping is huge, even before the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. That’s why we felt it’s important to get into some of the details of food delivery in South Korea that are available to…
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An Expat’s Guide to Food Delivery in South Korea

How to Adapt Your Career To Life Abroad

By Kari / July 27, 2021
Adapting to life abroad is no easy feat. Factor in the necessary changes to adapt your career to life abroad, and it’s even more difficult. You likely traded in a secure, long-term job you’ve worked hard for in exchange for…
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How to Adapt Your Career To Life Abroad

Mount Geumosan Hike: Temples, Waterfalls, and Caves

By Kari / June 23, 2021
In an earlier blog post, we talked about an Asan hike. In this post, we’re going 2 hours farther south to Mount Geumosan. Geumosan Provincial Park was designated as a park in 1970. It has hundreds of beautiful sights and…
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Mount Geumosan Hike: Temples, Waterfalls, and Caves

Part 2: Expat Guide for Moving To Korea – 8 Things You Must Know

By Kari / June 6, 2021
We’re continuing on from our original ‘Part 1: Expat Guide for Moving To Korea: 8 Things You Must Know’. In this post, we’re going over some equally essential tips you need to know when first moving to South Korea. They…
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Part 2: Expat Guide for Moving To Korea – 8 Things You Must Know

Part 1: Expat Guide for Moving To Korea – 8 Things You Must Know

By Kari / June 3, 2021
We originally wrote the ‘Expat Guide for Moving to Korea – 8 Things You Must Know’ with the intent of fitting it all in one post. However, the more we got to writing and researching, the more we realized there’s…
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Part 1: Expat Guide for Moving To Korea – 8 Things You Must Know

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Moving from country to country is the easy bit. Anyone can pack up a kitchen, or a closet, but it takes guts and courage to walk away from one life, to say goodbye to everything you know. To leave the comfort of the familiar and loved, to begin a new life from scratch – that’s where the fearless and the brave stand up.

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