The more mobile life becomes, the more rules it seems to collect. Written rules shape how long you can stay, where an experiment is allowed to operate, and what “anywhere” costs. And often, unwritten ones shape how a place (and culture) actually works.
NOMAD VISAS
🇰🇷 South Korea’s “workation” visa gets an upgrade
After a two-year pilot, the country is formalising and extending its nomad visa offer. Maximum stays move from two years to three, while the income threshold is halved for applicants aged 18 to 34 if they live outside Seoul.
Lim Jae-Seong for The Korea Herald
GLOBAL MOBILITY
🇹🇭 Thailand wants you to get an actual visa
The 60-day visa exemption that made Thailand a no-brainer for nomads is on its way out, with shorter stays and fewer eligible countries. If your plan relies on rolling tourist entries, it may soon be time for a rethink.
Bangkok Post
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POST-NATION
🌐 Host countries still hold the keys
Malaysian authorities have shut down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School campus after a political row involving immigration rules and national sovereignty concerns. The lesson is obvious: an “opt-in jurisdiction” still answers to the country that hosts it.
Ashley Tang and Rozanna Latiff for Reuters
NOMAD LIFESTYLE
📡 Starlink tightens its roaming rules
New limits mean the cheaper plans no longer travel as freely as their users do. For off-grid nomads, internet anywhere just moved up a pricing tier.
Michael Kan for PC Mag
PLACEMAKING
🌆 Clean cities are a multiplayer game
What turns cleanliness from a public service into a public habit? From Singapore to Japan to Rwanda, the cleanest places make it everybody’s job.
Yvonne Xu for Monocle
TRAVEL TIPS
📓 Your phone is a terrible notebook
The address, the idea, the thing you meant to remember—how to write it all down without turning one small task into a 20-minute detour.
Mark Ragland for The Pocket Notebook
🇰🇷 Nunchi: the rules nobody writes down
Roughly translated as “eye-measure”, Nunchi is the Korean art of reading the subtleties nobody spells out, like timing, tact, hierarchy, and mood. For those of us living between cultures, it’s perhaps the difference between reading the room and assuming the same rules apply in every room.
Further reading: The Power of Nunchi: The Korean Secret to Happiness and Success by Euny Hong
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