Digital Nomad Essentials

📱 eSim: Airalo
💳 International Card: Wise
🌍 Visa for any country: Joinsherpa
👥 Neighborhood Vibes: Hoodmaps
🏥 Insurance: Credit-Card Built in Insurance
🏠 Housing: Airbnb Book 28 days for discounts
🎦 See the Experience: Youtube

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Daejeon South Korea

Average Expenses

💵 Cost of living for nomad: ~$2,100 / month
🏨 Hotel (median price): ~$1,491 / month
🍛 Plain Dinner: $6.80-$10.00
🍛 Eating out at restaurants: $20.00-$30.00
🍺 Beer in cafe (0.5L): $3.59
☕️ Coffee in cafe: $3.89
☕️ Cheapest Coffee (Mega Coffee): $1.00

Highlights 🎖️

Snowing in Daejeon
Nature Parks
Daejeon Skyroad
An opportunity to deep focus

Not So Good 😢

Not much to do
A bit isolated
Food is as expensive as in Seoul even though its much farther

Restaurants

Daejeon Jungang Market
- A lively market in Daejeon offering a variety of fresh produce, street food, and local goods.
- Website
- Directions

Attractions

Expo Bridge
- A picturesque bridge in Daejeon, offering scenic views of the surrounding area and the Expo Park.
- Website
- Directions
Daejeon Shinsegae Art & Science
- A cultural and educational complex in Daejeon, featuring art exhibitions, interactive science displays, and more.
- Website
- Directions
Daejeon Skyroad
- A scenic road in Daejeon offering panoramic views of the cityscape and surrounding mountains.
- Website
- Directions

Youtube Videos

Digital Nomad Protips

🌔 Do not arrive in the airport at night.

It adds a layer of complexity trying to figure out how to get to your accomodation at night.

🚕 Taxis are notorious at overcharging at any country.

Arriving at night forces you to sometimes use them. Especially in countries where you can’t easily use Uber

🍇 Always know where the supermarket is

or better yet, live near the local supermarket. This will help you save tons of money and really simulate living like a local.

👩‍🍳 Find Restaurants/Cafes where the owner is constantly there

Frequently visit that place. They will start noticing you and become friendly. It helps you adjust to certain places when you know some of the locals and it’s one of the easiest ways to make friends.

🏦 Always bring cash.

around $100 worth, regardless if the country uses card in most places. There will almost always be an instance where you need cash. Do not bring too much cash as well.

🏂 Do not bring clothes for all seasons.

The worst case is that half of your clothes is for winter and the other half is summer. In most cases, it will either be too hot or too cold to where the other half of your clothes. Bring only a few set and look for local bazaars that sell affordable clothes for that season. You save in luggage expense, help local community, and get new clothes. win-win-win.

🚚 Understand crossing the road culture.

It’s surprising how different cultures treat crossing the road varies greatly, e.g vietnam versus australia, it could very well save your life.

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