Heather Carruthers

Created for connection: life as a foreigner in Seoul

11 July 2025Cue a flurry of house renovating, a flood, more house renovating and finally in December 2018, after a final Christmas for a while in the UK, we got on the plane. I was not new to travelling and living overseas, but this had not prepared me for the most alien place I had ever been to. When we arrived, walking around the Korean capital was a sensory overload – the 12-lane highway running through the centre of the city, multicoloured signs that I couldn’t read, unfamiliar food, a language I…