We’re Doa and Key, a Korean married couple 🇰🇷 currently on a one-year journey around the world since April 2025.

We believe in “You Only Live Once,” and the life is short, so we decided to take time off to explore the colorful world and connect with people from different cultures. We’re excited to share stories, smiles, and special memories with local friends along the way! 🌏🙌🏻

【Doa👧🏻】
・Worked in Nepal, Cambodia, and Rwanda through NGOs and KOICA for the sustainable development👩‍💻
・Visited 56 countries✈️
・Studied in China, UK, Nepal🇨🇳🇬🇧🇳🇵
・Speaks Nepali, Chinese, English, Korean🇳🇵🇨🇳🇬🇧🇰🇷 (a little Khmer and Kinyarwanda 🇰🇭🇷🇼)
・Personality : bright, cheerful, outgoing, brave, independent, cute, lovely, unique, crazy ✨️
・Hobbies : playing the piano, posting daily on my blog, traveling, making surprise events, cooking, enjoying home parties, drinking, hiking, dancing with jazz music, listening to different people's life stories, boardgames 🌈
・Instagram : doa_in.nepal 📷

【Key🧑🏻】
・Running my own online business 🧑‍💻
・Visited 29 countries✈️
・Studied in Canada and USA 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
・Speaks English, Korean🇺🇸🇰🇷 (a little Japanese and learning Spanish 🇯🇵🇪🇸)
・Personality : bright, brilliant, brave, optimistic, 50% introvert, 50% extrovert ✨️
・Hobbies : camping, hiking, trekking, football, drinking(coffee, beer), cooking, talking, shooting photos, sharing cultures, traveling 😋
・Instagram : key_lometer 👣

👇🏻Our 1 year trip with CS friends
- (25.04.29~25.05.01) Bee and Soy 🇲🇳
- (25.05.01~25.05.04) George and Bishrel 🇲🇳
- (25.05.04~25.05.10) Sema 🇰🇿
- (25.05.12~25.05.19) Suleyman 🇰🇬
- (25.05.20~25.05.23) Umut and Aytac 🇹🇷
- (25.05.26~25.06.06) Gok 🇹🇷
- (25.06.06~25.06.08) Umut and Filiz 🇹🇷
- (25.06.08~25.06.12) Murat 🇹🇷
- (25.06.13~25.06.15) Sevval and Mert 🇹🇷
- (25.06.15~25.06.19) Zineb 🇹🇷
- (25.06.20~25.06.24) Metin, Buket and Uraz 🇹🇷
- (25.06.24~25.06.26) Bogdan and Gala 🇬🇪
- (25.06.29~25.06.30) Ucha 🇬🇪
- (25.06.30~25.07.06) Dimitry 🇬🇪
- (25.07.06~25.07.08) Alex and Helen 🇬🇪
- (25.07.08~25.07.11) Nicolas and Katrina 🇩🇪
- (25.07.11~25.07.13) Umesh and Gayatri 🇩🇪
- (25.07.13~25.07.16) Enlik 🇩🇪
- (25.07.16~25.07.19) Nicolas and Katrina 🇩🇪
- (25.07.21~25.07.23) Robert 🇬🇧
- (25.07.23~25.07.25) James 🇬🇧
- (25.07.27~25.08.03) Mohammed and Alex 🇬🇧
- (25.08.03~25.08.06) Bertie 🇬🇧
- (25.10.15~25.10.27) Gok 🇹🇷
- (25.10.29~25.11.01) Ruben 🇪🇸
- (25.11.01~25.11.03) Maximiliano 🇩🇴
- (25.11.03~25.11.04) Ricardo 🇩🇴
- (25.11.04~25.11.06) Paola 🇲🇽
- (25.11.11~25.11.14) Guillermina 🇨🇴
- (25.11.18~25.11.20) Mario and Stepano 🇵🇪
- (25.11.20~25.11.22) Sami 🇧🇴

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to know different people from me, Especially what they think, what they do, why they live, what they dream, what make them happy, etc. I want to make special memories and valuable time through travel around the world.

Interests

• writing
• dining
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• jazz
• piano
• happiness
• challenging myself
• home parties

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - jazz, indie, sweet hiphop
Movie - About time, Begin again, 不能说的秘密,Once, Eat Pray Love, Lala land, Note book, Midnight in Paris, 听说

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* Although my family's financial status wasn't good, I studied hard during high school, and eventually, I could enter Samsung at the age of 17
* Once my life had somewhat stabilized, I started sponsoring Korean and Nepali children
* From 2012 to 2022, I supported a Nepali girl called Rebika, who lived in a small rural village in Nepal, contributing $25 every month for ten years until she was on the verge of adulthood
* In 2013, curious about Rebika’s environment and how she was living, I took my first trip to Nepal. That meeting moved me deeply, and it inspired me to learn Nepali so I could communicate better with her.
* I found a Nepali restaurant in Korea and asked the owner to teach me Nepali. Now my Nepali is quite fluent
* Meeting Rebika was a turning point in my life. Our connection made me dream of helping Nepali children, and at the age of 22, I left Samsung and worked for Nepali children's better education
* After that, I continued working in developing countries for several years, such as Cambodia, Rwanda, and Nepal again for the sustainable development
* Life becomes more beautiful when you help people and share your love with them ❤️

What I Can Share with Hosts

Korean food, Korean culture, Travel stories, Marriage stories, Nepal stories, Smile and Posotive energy, Lovely gifts

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mauritius, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Cambodia, China, Nepal, Rwanda, United Kingdom