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디지털 노마드 라이프 – 라이크크레이지(설레여행) 김상수 대표 일하는 즐거움, 디지털 노마드 라이프  김상수 라이크크레이지(설레여행) 대표 강연

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국내 최초의 디지털 노마드 스타트업, ‘라이크크레이지’

국내 최초의 디지털 노마드 스타트업, ‘라이크크레이지’

국내 최초의 디지털 노마드 스타트업, ‘라이크크레이지’

김상수 대표는 21살이란 나이에 영어 학원의 어학 상품 영업 팀을 꾸려 또래보다 일찍 경제 활동을 시작했다고 한다. 기획에서부터 현장 영업까지 모두 그들 하기 나름이었다. 재미있어서 시작한 일은 월 매출 3억 원을 기록하는 사업으로 커졌다. 그렇게 영원히 성장할 것만 같았다. 열정은 넘쳤으나 철학은 없던 그에게 쉽게 찾아온 성공은, 그러나 뜻밖의 일로 쉽게 떠나갔다.

잘 나가던 사업가는 한순간에 나이 많은 복학생으로 변해있었다. 사업 실패로 인해 돈도, 인간관계도 잃으면서 안으로 단단해진 그는 ‘영업만 해봤지 사업이 학문적으로 정립되어있지 않다.’는 판단하에 카이스트 경영대학원에 진학한다. 그리고 ‘쉘위애드‘로 또 한 번 사업의 출발점에 선다.

쉽지…

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HOW TO MAKE A TRAVEL BUDGET

You’ve finally decided to take that trip you’ve been dreaming about for years. You’ve chosen a destination and read all about it in a guidebook or online. But how much will this trip cost? How much money do you need for daily expenses while you’re traveling? When can you afford to go on this vacation? Travel expenses can vary greatly depending on how you like to travel, so it’s important to make…

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HOW TO FIND RIGHT TRAVEL INFO.

A couple of years ago, I rs in San Francisco and was invited by the folks at Google Travel to visit their campus, where we spent a lot of time geeking out over travel booking data and metrics. One of the stats that stood out for me was that most consumers spend over 40 hours researching their trip and look at over 20 sites!y

When I started planning my first trip around the world in 2005, there…

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[Yu-Jin's Hanoi Travelog] Looking for Travel buddy & Locals!

[Yu-Jin’s Hanoi Travelog] Looking for Travel buddy & Locals!

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Our first trip, Let’s meet Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Hoan Kiem Lake!

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Love Vietnam!

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It’s good to be lost, take pictures in a beautiful landscape

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We have nice people at a nice cafe.

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At Goksong Temple!

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Beer Distance. Let’s enjoy night of Hanoi with travel buddies!

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Hanoi…

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The Best Countries to visit in 2018!

The more you travel, the more you realise there’s so much of the world still to discover.

In order to help you put together your 2018 travel bucket list, Business Insider asked the world’s most esteemed travel experts — from the likes of Airbnb and Lonely Planet to independent bloggers and backpacking Instagrammers — for the one destination everyone should visit in the new year.

Including three…

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Walk and Explore Korea with Locals : Airbnb Experience

    Airbnb has launched a similar with Serentrip but tollable program called Experience (trip)

Following Forbes, Airbnb is betting big on their Experiences. And it makes sense – travelers want that experience that takes them deeper into a destination. Gives them a taste of a city that’s totally unique, totally tailored to them.

This change of Airbnb happens in Korea as well. Nowadays more than…

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9 Best Places to travel at the end of the year.

Airport business woman waiting in terminal. Air travel concept with casual businesswoman sitting with suitcase. Mixed race female professions.

As a whole, the month of December is a whirlwind. Even as the chaos of Thanksgiving weekend begins to fade, the world is already preparing for the end-of-year holidays. Balancing the frenzy of shopping, company parties, and family time can be daunting, but…

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How to find a cheap flight.

In your average year I take over 30 flights. I’m not rich, but I’m rich in travel experiences. People often ask me how I afford to travel so much because flights can be expensive, but I am usually very flexible and I often plan my travels around the cheap flights I can find. For example, recently I saw Alitalia flight from Japan to Rome for £30 so I decided I would fly to Italy. I had always…

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Ji-Won's Winter Seoul Travelogue

Ji-Won’s Winter Seoul Travelogue

Winters in Korea can be harsh, averaging a temperature of -10 to 5 degrees Celsius through the day. Even my native Korean friend would say, “Our winter is the kind of cold that will make you angry!” So, it’s not surprising that most people tend to avoid visiting Korea during the months from December to February.

However, if you still want to make it there during this time, and hate feeling too…

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6 Reasons for Solo Travel in Hong Kong (Even solo female travelers)

Back when I was a single female (before Josh came along), I wanted to travel, but it was always?difficult to find others who could travel with me. ?If this is the way you feel…don’t feel stuck…just go it alone! ?Traveling solo?can be a wonderful experience, full of personal growth and introspection.? Some females are a bit wary of traveling solo, and it’s true that some destinations are more…

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Shanghai bristles with buildings, but the city doesn’t boast must-see sights like New York or Rome. The joys of Shanghai, instead, are on the street level, where everyday life unfolds with bewildering variety. An elderly woman in pajamas will be chopping vegetables on the stoop of her lane house, while a Prada-clad beauty will sashay past on her way to a nearby art gallery. So sharpen your elbows, pick up a pair of chopsticks and dig in.

  1. Shanghai Maglev Train

The magnetic-levitation train ride from the international airport to the city is the perfect metaphor for Shanghai. The train reaches speeds of 430 km/hr (267 miles/hr), and the trip takes less than eight minutes. You’ll be feeling a bit whiplashed, but that sense of disorientation hints at the fast-paced city that lies ahead. As of now, the Maglev doesn’t extend to the rest of the Shanghai — the train line was built mostly as a prestige project to impress visitors, not to service locals — so the airport run is the one place you can enjoy the ride. Single-ride tickets cost 50 yuan.

  2. Fuxing Park

Unlike many Chinese cities that appear to have forgotten that people occasionally like to perambulate, Shanghai is made for walking. Start your own walk in Fuxing Park smack-dab in the colonial-era French Concession, with its shady sycamore trees and stuccoed villas. In the park, you’ll find grannies in pajamas belting out Chinese opera, and Mao-suited men taking their caged birds for a stroll. Around the corner at 7 Xiangshan Road is the former residence of Sun Yat-sen, modern China’s founding father. His house, which contains period furniture and books, reminds you of what Shanghai felt like during its first heyday. Afterward, wander the nearby lanes — past elegant mansions now subdivided into several families’ homes, complete with outdoor wok stations and billows of hanging laundry — to get a sense of street-level Shanghai today.

1. Fuxing Park 105 Fuxing Zhong Road, Shanghai, China; 86-(0)21-6372-6083

2. Sun Yat-sen’s House 7 Xiangshan Road, Shanghai, China; 86-(0)21-6437-2954

  3.  One of the largest STARBUCKS in the world 

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The new Starbucks Reserve Roastery, which opened Tuesday in Shanghai, is the first non-U.S. location of a new series of shops designed to offer a more “immersive” experience for coffee lovers, according to Starbucks. The first such roastery, which opened in Seattle in 2014, is about half its size, CNN reported.

The Shanghai location is the world’s largest Starbucks. It includes three coffee bars, one of which clocks in at 88 feet long — the chain’s longest to date. The coffee bars will serve brews made from beans grown in China’s Pu’er in Yunnan Province, USA Today reported. A two-story, 40-ton copper cask towers over the store, refilling the coffee bars’ various silos.

As a nod to the local beverage of choice, it also includes a tea bar made from 3-D printed materials, and an in-house bakery employing more than 30 Chinese bakers and chefs, the company stated.

The experience seems curated to keep people milling about the store. It is the first Starbucks location to integrate augmented reality, which refers to technology that combines real-world surroundings with tech, in this case the customers’ smartphones. They can point their phones at various spots around the cavernous room to learn about the coffee-brewing process.

  4. Dongtai Road

There’s a store on Dongtai Road, a chockablock stretch of antiques and curio shops off Xizang Road, that proudly displays a milk-bottle delivery box from the 1920s. I once tried to buy it from the couple who owns the shop. The husband laughed. The wife told me that several museum curators had already offered big money, but she wasn’t selling. Amongst all of Dongtai Road’s tourist tat — and, trust me, there is plenty of it — are treasures. Some, like the milk box, aren’t for sale. But plenty else is, including lovely art-deco pieces and lots of Cultural Revolution memorabilia. About halfway up the street is my favorite book-dealer. Collectors of tiny antique metal teapots are also in luck — there’s an entire store devoted to that esoteric object. Just east of Dongtai Road is a plant-and-animal market, where you can pick up a championship cricket for the next time you need an insect to enter in a prizefight. Doesn’t everybody?

  5. Green Massage

Traditional Chinese acupressure is not for the weak. This isn’t some oil-slicked Swedish relaxation or even the passive yoga that characterizes Thai massage. Chinese acupressure is a little like China itself: You may be blinking back tears of pain, but ultimately, it’s a rewarding experience. Green Massage (98 yuan for 45 minutes), behind Huaihai Park, offers an experience that’s a few notches above the thousands of hole-in-the-wall massages parlors in Shanghai. At Green, there are proper massage tables, clean pajamas to change into, soothing woodwind music and scented candles. None of that changes the fact that your body will be entering the space between pleasure and pain. Enjoy.

  6. Get a bird’s-eye view of the city from the Oriental Pearl Tower

No first trip to Shanghai is complete without a trip to the Oriental Pearl Tower, arguably the most iconic of Shanghai’s many neck-craning skyscrapers. Go all the way up to the 259m-high upper platform, with a glass floor, for dizzyingly stunning views of the city.

  7. Spend some time with nature at Yu Garden

 This extensive Chinese garden is spread over 2 hectares and houses many relics from the Ming dynasty. The gardens are a beautiful example of Chinese landscaping, with glittering ponds, Ming-style pavilions and towers, and a 12-metre high rockery including caves, gorges and peaks.

  8. Pay your respects at the City God Temple

Located in the old walled city, this temple is dedicated to the city gods, in the tradition of most Chinese towns. The surrounding temple area has many restaurants, teahouses and souvenir shops, and is a great place to spend some time exploring local culture.

  9. Sample some street food at Shouning Lu Food Street

 One of the best known food streets in Shanghai, this tiny lane might be a little chaotic to maneuver for a first-timer, but the seafood here is to die for. Try whole barbecued fish, crayfish, roast duck and traditional Shanghai-style dumplings at very reasonable prices.

Go together with local friends in traditional market! They explain street food well. Also they will protect you from eating bugs… 🙂

  10. Go Shanghai Disneyland

Shanghai Disney land is the biggest Disneyland in Asia. There are some peculiarities. Among them, I’d like to tell you about Toy Story Land!! The Shanghai Disney Resort revealed the attraction line-up and concept art for the Toy Story Land at last month!

Shanghai’s Toy Story Land will include an Intamin RC Racer coaster from the Paris and Hong Kong installations (to be called Rex’s Racer in Shanghai).

And it will include the Slinky Dog Spin caterpillar ride from those parks, as well.

Shanghai’s Toy Story Land will not include the Parachute Drop ride from those lands, however, substituting Woody’s Round-Up, instead — a spinner ride similar to Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree at Disney California Adventure.

You can purchase a discounted ticket by registering for a trip to Shanghai here.

10 Things to do in Shanghai, China Shanghai bristles with buildings, but the city doesn't boast must-see sights like New York or Rome. The joys of Shanghai, instead, are on the street level, where everyday life unfolds with bewildering variety.

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12 Reasons Japan is the ultimate destination for female traveler with travel mate!

Japan, with its zen-like temples and compact size, is a magical, intriguing and marvelous travel destination hardwired for female solo travelers. Famous for its intricate culture, Japan delights solo travelers with its mesmerizing natural beauty, tranquility and inner balance. What’s more, it’s incredibly safe and has charming locals that can make your solo escape even more worthwhile and…

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How to travel like a local

There are two options when traveling:

1) Go to all of the tourist places, and

2) Live like the locals.

Each has its own pros and cons but the local lifestyle may give you that vacation you have always desired. Let’s break it down to see what each option has to offer.

1. The tourist.

You have to see every monument, museum, and park. If it’s marked on a map, you will be there. You are also first…

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Basic Korean Phrases for Tourist.

Read this, if you have a plan to visit Korea or want to study Korean Language Hangul!

Many of us travellers have learned foreign language for travel. If you learned and tried to say it then you would know even one word ‘hello’ in their language can bring a whole lot different outcome. Also you can learn more than it would have been otherwise.

By the way, Korean gets most difficult and least popular. They said “Very interesting language and a great country but one of the most…

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Best services for Backpackers

Making a travel plan is very difficult. Even if you have a lot of experiences. But, You can’t remiss it.?Even if you had a perfect plan,?But?maybe?something?goes?wrong?in your journey. So, I will introduce some of services for?someone like you who’s having the same problem.?

  Tripit – Travel Planning app

TripIt is the type of app that almost needs no introduction. When it comes to travel…

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Best destination to visit from Singapore using short holidays.

Best destination to visit from Singapore using short holidays.

The Residence Maldives

Here are some last-minute travel ideas for the long weekend, whether you’re looking for romance, adventure or shopping

Procrastinators, breathe! We know, we all leave it too late to book trips for the public holiday weekends, but don’t give up the idea of having a short break from Singapore just yet! Whatever your holiday tastes are, we have just the last-minute travel…