Watching the numbers shift on my phone screen I remember staring at my banking app last Tuesday, feeling like I was waiting for something that was never going to land in my favor. It’s funny how, when you’re about to travel or just dealing with some offshore account stuff, you suddenly become an amateur economist….
Trying to move cash from Tokyo back home I’ve been living in Japan for a while now, and honestly, the process of sending money back to Korea still feels like something out of the early 2000s. Every time I get my paycheck in yen, there’s this lingering annoyance about how to actually get that money…
Why I stopped keeping my extra cash in dollars I started investing in US stocks about two years ago, thinking it would be a smart move to diversify my savings. At first, it felt pretty straightforward. You buy the stock, it goes up or down, and you sell. But then I realized that whenever I…
Why the paperwork feels like a part-time job I went to the branch of my local bank yesterday because I needed to send some money to a friend living in Japan. I thought it would be a simple matter of walking up to the counter, filling out a slip, and being done with it in…
When the app stopped working right when I needed it I honestly thought I had everything figured out. I had been using Utransfer for a few months because the interface felt slightly less intimidating than the corporate banking portals I usually use for my overseas transactions. But then last Tuesday, it just refused to load….
Why I bothered with Seoul Station in the first place I remember staring at the screen for a good ten minutes, refreshing the page to see if the exchange rate for Thai baht had dropped even a fraction of a point. People kept telling me that if I was going to Thailand for a week,…