Journalist Elissavet Kyritsi met today on “Take Your Time” with Prokopis Angelopoulos. Elissavet Kyritsi lives in South Korea, in the city of Chungju, where she went as an “love immigrant”.
Replying to a question from the journalist, she said that “it was a big risk to go to the other side of the world and I made the decision after a marriage proposal”.
As she told us “during the quarantine period I had started learning Korean, I decided to do something new”.
So, starting learning a foreign language, she entered a relevant application where she met her husband. After a year of video calls, she went to South Korea where she stayed in a quarantine hotel during the coronavirus era and then met her partner. “Until then I was watching Korea in series,” he said, adding that “it is a very beautiful country, clean, but if someone does not know the language he will face problems of communication and socialization.”
The region where she lives is quieter than Seoul and prices are lower but better than Greece, he said, because the euro is stronger.
As she said, she no longer drives and goes everywhere by bus or bike as the city is friendly to cyclists and pedestrians.
From late November until now it is winter, and summer is quite hot during the monsoon season due to humidity.
Finally, referring to her work, she said that she is celebrating three years in South Korea this year. The first two years she worked on a morning TV show in Greece remotely. Now she collaborates with a publishing house in our country doing editing and translations while at the same time giving English lessons.
Elissavet Kyritsi was born and raised in Athens. As a journalist she has worked in newspapers, radio and television. She has written short stories which have been included in fantasy collections.