What it's like to study abroad in seoul 💌

Hey guys! 🥰 I'm officially back home + missing the wonderful city of Seoul. Welcome to a video where I share little stories, casual magic moments and memories from my study abroad semester in Korea! I study at Minerva university! I recreated Namjoon from BTS' photos at the San Museum, had breakthrough moments with the Korean language, made friends out of strangers and got burned out. I hope you enjoy!

Timestamps:
0:00 seeing my family for the first time in 9 months!
1:03 turning strangers to unexpected friends on bukhansan mountain
4:05 BTS-themed day and recreating RM's photos!
6:51 understanding Korean!
7:45 burnout :(
9:24 internship with a non-profit and learning about North Korea
12:37 cycling the Han River and making mistakes!

Mentioned in this video:
Bukhansan Mountain (tallest in Seoul!)
Cycling the Han River - I started at Yeouido Park and cycled to Jamsil

✨ CONTACT ME ✨
Instagram - @unjadedjade
TikTok: @unjadedjade

🌞 MORE 🌞
Casual Magic of the Day: me and my dad played music while making porridge together. it's special to be with him in person again.
Song of the Day: Cruisin' to the Parque feat Y La Bamba
What are YOU grateful for today?

FAQ:
How old are you? ~ 21
Where are you from? ~ The UK! Near London.
Where do you go to university? ~ Minerva Schools at KGI

CURRENT FAVOURITES — things I love recently (these are all affiliate links):

if no one has told you today, you are enough. 💛

[annamullan]

Minerva needs to rethink their ethos and how they approach academics. And honestly, also how they approach the whole cross-cultural semester set up; like it’s not possible to truly soak up the culture and the people in each different country when that’s combined with the sheer work load. As a uni, it looks exhausting, overwhelming and unhealthily stressful.

[rainbowfuchsia]

You'll probably disagree, but I think this degree course is too intense. I'm totally not thinking a degree should be easy, but watching your friends deteriorate around you is too much. I love the video though and love the way you get to study in different countries.

[darjaberg]

your experience at Minerva reminds me a lot of what I experienced studying physics at Imperial. The culture of "as imperial students you should be able to handle this, and if you can't you aren't good enough", was doing wonders for everyone's mental health... and the mental health services had 1-2 month queues 🙄 a lot of people were burnt out and some even depressed. it always felt like it didn't have to be like that, like they were making it harder on purpose, just to prove some point.

[SamElle]

total sidenote, but your blue top make your eyes POP!!! so so prettty

[alicenilssontrygg]

It would be so nice if you made a video going through all your experiences!! Haha it sound a lot but like if you started with when you first travelled in Europe, then in Australia. Then when you where in America and Berlin and Seoul. You could summarize everything and talk about what each of the experiences taught you and which you liked most and so on. You inspire me so much and I would really appreciate a video like that! Thank you 💜

[bhanvijuvekar]

Somebody you didn't know noticed you were stressed and then got you a cookie??? That is such a wholesome story to hear and so heartwarming especially you know when everybody is so busy with their own lives... Loved hearing these anecdotes <333 :))

[Thekpopenthusiast]

I already loved how wholesome genuine you are as a person, and how much you focus on meaningful relationships... and then I saw you like BTS for their deep lyrics AND Kookie’s socks (JK is my bias) and I love you even more now haha 💕 Keep being awesome!

[IsabellaBoyne]

Thank you for sharing more of your experiences! Your videos always bring so much happiness to my life and I love how you try and talk to new people and explore so many different projects etc. You are so inspiring and seem like the loveliest person - would love to have a friend like you in my life so it's so cute that you consider your subscribers your friends 🥰

[gloss]

my favourite youtuber is an army? im so happyyy i love your content so much! <33

[alicefeel]

Jaaade✨ I know you love your followers but sometimes people are going through something in their life and they could be mean (not purposefully), please don’t let this discourage you from making glorious videos and undermine your confidence 🤩
Looots of love💛💛💛

[lais]

jade you are such a queen! congrats for opening yourself for this new experiences, i imagine being in a foreign country must be tough.
you are a real inspiration 🦋

[missg]

No university is worth deteriorating for. There is something very wrong with Minerva if the norm is that your mental health will suffer massively. Does Minerva not provide mental health support and mitigations to help students? From everything described, it seems like the set up at Minerva is designed to make students struggle, rather than to let them flourish.

[yakineferjani]

I just put this video in between my study sessions, it's so calming and I love everything you touched on. As an ARMY the Joonie part was a bonus 💜 Everyone loves that lovely human being, he's really inspiring from the way he talks to the way he raps. I wish I could visit Seoul one day, one's SOUL would thrive in SEOUL 🌻

[larenafiandes]

namjoon stan here, British and 38, I love watching your videos and you really captured a nice view of korean life

[kadeeeartiaga]

Before anything else, lemme let it out—-I’m so in love with your hair! 🥺😍

I’ve always love S. Korea and I want to visit the country soon~~~ this video made me crave for it more! ❤️❤️❤️

[ashitha]

Jade! I'm so glad u love BTS cuz I do too!! They're such inspiring and brilliant artists and they're songs rly speak out to me!! So happy that u like their music too 💜💜💜

[linab]

Thanks for also talking about negative aspects. I think talking about burnouts and mental health struggles is really important, especially now with social media it seems like everyone just easily manages to write a book, study in uni, and be self employed. I always wondered how you do it without burning out 😅

[lechettea]

as an introvert, this inspires me to just have random talks with strangers

[wearsaaliyah]

Loved hearing about some of ur adventures in seoul :)

[sarazx]

Jade im so happy that you are back to home. I was so excited to see you going back idk why i miss your room lol😂😂😂. Enjoyy ❤️❤️