✨ You’re reading the DNK September 2025 issue
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Annyeong Digital Nomads Korea community!

We’re saying hello from Busan 👋👋 

Our team has been in the South of Korea for a month now, organising a series of workations. We’ve been coliving, coworking, and exploring the coastal city with 55 nomads already - and counting!

The Summer workation and the Asia workation are over… but the Startup & Film workation is starting today 🤯

In this newsletter, we’ve got:

• 🌊 News about Busan Workations: the Korean Language workation starts in October

• 🎬 A guide to Busan International Film Festival (movies with English subtitles!)

• 📆 and fun with our events calendar.

🤗 NEWS

✈️ Startup conference FlyAsia taking off next week

You can still join our special Startup Innovation Week.

From September 21 to 28, we’re attending FlyAsia Global Startup Conference and Startup W-Day, holding a networking dinner with speakers & partners, and visiting local businesses and accelerators.  

🇰🇷 Practice Korean with us  

Korea is one of those countries where your experience radically changes if you know a few words - and even more if you can have a basic conversation.

But to get there… You’ll have to practice a lot. Lucky for you, our last workation this year is all about practicing 💪 

From October 10 to 24, we’ll be in Busan, teaching you the basics of the Korean language, and organising daily language exchange with locals. 

You’ll learn about the culture hands-on with cooking and K-pop dance classes. 

And most importantly, you’ll be with like-minded community of nomads, willing to dive deeper into Korean culture. 

Accomodation, coworking and events are included! (We have discounted price for the program if you already have your accomodation.)

🎬 Movies with English subtitles at Busan film festival

We wrote a guide for the Busan International Film Festival (or BIFF) - happening this week. If you’re a movie and TV show lover, you can see movies (with English subtitles!) and meet the actors, directors, screenwriters, and other professionals involved in making them. 

We’ll be going with the workation, but if you want to attend it on your own, we explain the highlights of the festival’s features and how you can access them if you’re a digital nomad, with no previous experience of Korea and no connections in the film industry. 

📆 EVENTS

September Event calendar 👇

☀️ Seoul

🧑🏽‍💻 Coworking Session & Community Dinner at Hoppin House

• Wednesday 17 - Korean Grilled Fish (Jibbap style)  

• Wednesday 24 - Dakdoritang (Chicken) 

🌊 Busan

💼 W-day at Busan Workation Central Center

• Wednesday 17 - Film Night 

• Wednesday 24 - Startup Night

October events are coming soon.

For more events, subscribe to our Luma or Meetup calendar. We come up with new ones every month.

If you’d like to help us host some events, reach out to us! Hosting can be as simple as showing up to the event - nothing complicated. Help us grow the Digital Nomad Community in Korea 🫶

🎟️ Friends of DNK

We’ve got some special offers for Nomad events organised by our Japan partners.

• Colive Fukuoka 
  A 10-day digital nomad festival and startup events in Fukuoka (Oct 1–10). Attend events like the Global Nomad Summit, Synapse Festival, RAMEN TECH, and retreat to Goto Island.
  10% Discount Code — DNK2025.

• Shibuya Startup Support Digital Nomad Program 

  Are you a digital nomad entrepreneur interested in doing business in Japan? Join and get coworking access and business support.

• Manabu Hubs STARTCLUB 
  Founder track with 4-week online sessions, a 3-day exchange in Hualien (Taiwan), and Fukuoka Demo Day; chance to win a flight to Australia and 50% off a CoLive × Manabu bundle (code: Manabubundle)

• FUTRFEST 
  Inviting digital nomads to Osaka. Attend talks, network, and discover the local culture. Free coworking space in the center of Osaka and retreats to Shirahama and Rokko Mountain.

See you in Busan!

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