As we all know, South Korea is a crowded country, with more than 50 million people. Approximately 90% of that land is mountainous, meaning that people had to use the space available in the most creative way to fit everyone. A Goshiwon, also known as an “off-campus dormitory” is no more than a small room with everything you can find on a normal house, needed to live. In these small rooms you can find a bed, fridge, TV, and not always but sometimes they also have a bathroom. Rent prices in South Korea can be expensive so a Goshiwon is a solution to this, they can be small but so… Read More

How do we live a happy life and achieve real happiness? The Courage to Be Disliked paperback has sold over 3.5 million copies, and is a Japanese phenomenon that shows how to live a life and achieve real lasting happiness. It’s already an enormous bestseller and based on Alfred Adler’s philosophical tenets. He believes we can all live happy and fulfilled lives without worrying about the past or future. It’s also written by an award winning professional writer, Ichiro Kishimi and writer Fumitake Koga. In the book, Adler’s philosophy is that all problems are interpersonal relationship problems. To live a happy life, we must be able to accept ourselves as… Read More

An 87 year old grandmother from Japan, learned coding at the age of 81. Her name is Masako Wakamiya. Masako Wakamiya realized that there were no applications, especially game applications, that seniors could enjoy. Then Masako Wakamiya approached young game developers to make it. But they rejected it. And said that they didn’t know what the elderly people were asking for. So, Masako Wakamiya had to make it herself and she really did it herself. At the age of 81, Masako Wakamiya learned how to code so she could make games for seniors. The games application is called Hinadan and has received a rating of 4.9 and more than 100… Read More