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2019年12月25日2020年8月28日

Hyper international interaction ! Borderless Christmas with more than 120 people was held on the 7th of December !

December is the Christmas season!

All the street is illuminated and we see more and more chicken advertisement on TV and in the city! Don’t you think that the enhancement of the city increases our desire to have a Christmas party? Because it is Christmas!

To satisfy your desire, we held a Christmas Party like every year!

We rent a space in Jinbo-Cho called “EDITORY” and more than 120people came to our party! What kind of party it was?

In this blog, we are going to show the content!

The person who is going to do the Christmas Party tour is me, Pakuchi!

I am working at Borderless House as a student worker and I am in charge of the event!

So, CHECK IT OUT !!

International interaction and Christmas Party represent so much Borderless House !

In Borderless House, we organize twice a year a party with 80 to 100 people who are living in our sharehouse!

Christmas wich I am going to explain to you is one of the big events! Every year, a lot of our sweet tenant is joining the party. However, this year was not the same year as usual.

MORE than 120 people come to our party. What is going to happen to this memorable party? All the staff was surprised at the beginning!

When we start the reception, a HUGE line of people was in front of us.
and the event space becomes full in a second!

The receptionist, the bar, and the cloak were full of person and everybody was an assembly into the room.

We could hear people in many spaces starting to cheers because they could not wait for the beginning of the party. That represents our tenant so well!

They could not wait to start to interact with people and start to enjoy the conversation. Their communication skills are so remarkable!

And the sweet cute person who was charged to do the facilitator is our tenant!

Yes, this year also, our tenant help us for the Christmas Party!

The cute Santa Claus is Ashley, she is living in Itabashikuyakusho-mae House!

She is like a mother of the house and makes the community warm-up!

She is a big fan of Borderless House and she also help up for the event “Borderless Olympics”!

Thank you always, Ashley !!

The facilitation of Ashley, gives a tremendous boost to the atmosphere of the party!

You cannot say that you are shy! A very close linkage program heat the party!

The theme of this year’s Christmas party is “extends beyond the house, the nationality and the connection !“

This year, we invite tenants, people who reserve a room of Borderless House, people who are interested in international interaction and people’s friends!

The fact that a lot of people with different backgrounds can come is one of the characteristics of the party.

This is the reason why we always prepare some good programs in order to make the com munition between people easier! So, even you are a little shy, it is completely okay!

You will become quickly socialize with people around you! Let’s enjoy it!

You are my man of destiny ?! Number and color matching!

The first program is called number and color matching!

Everyone gets some wristband with a number and a color. You have to find the person who has the same color and number and form a group.

It is quite simple but fateful. In this huge universe, we all grew up in a different country, and we all gather in Tokyo and find together by coincidence.

Is it not fantastic ?!

Is it destiny ?!

All the groups did an introduction of themselves and the voltage of the room was in high gear! Everybody was so excited to find their fateful! People make some high-touch when they find they’re fateful!

This meeting is forever!

We don’t need language, what we need is an only passion! Let’s do the gesture game!

The next program is a gesture game!

After we all find our fateful, let start the game! The winner of the game can get some luxury prizes!

Everyone thought that gesture game is easy, but it is not the case!

Even if it is difficult, cooperation leads us to win! Everybody makes their own gesture and express the theme.

The first theme was the one of the difficult ones!

“zoo” Everybody did some gestures about the gorilla, monkey, etc. and people answered the name of animals. However, the word “zoo” is not appearing.

The floor is in chaos.

I know, we are vicious that we make this theme. When almost every team finished answering, only 2 teams didn’t finish to answer.

Even they could say that they have finished even if it is unfinished, they did so much effort to do it properly!

All of our staff were touched by their passion.

We really wanted to give them some gifts!

In the floor mix of passion and chaos, the 2nd theme is … “Disney Land”! This is also a difficult theme! Everyone answered “mouse” or “Mickey”.

At the moment we regret a little bit that we make so much difficult theme, a team who answer 2 right answers appeared!

As is it a team made by only fateful, the heart-to-heart communication is working very well!

They get the luxury price !! We didn’t expect that the gesture game reaches a fever pitch!

Are you interested in the content of the gift?

A set of world craft beer AND Order-made leather products from JOGGO AND AND a huge box of different sweets etc. Some presents from Borderless Santa!

We all envy….

Who are going to get the next prizes ?! The exciting bingo game!

We cannot forget the face Bingo game of Borderless House!
It became an annual event but let me explain the rule!

Borderless bingo is not a normal bingo game.

The face of each people who are coming to the Christmas party is becoming a number!

Thanks to you we can play the bingo game and thank to you someone can get the prize ! It is a very special bingo game.

Let start the bingo!

Everybody is paying attention to the face of people turning around!

This year, we choose as a prize: Amazon card, Borderless T-shirt, as a small present, land of Moon which gets famous in Terrace House and A5 rank ( higher quality ) Matsuzaka-beef!

And finally, don’t forget … 1-month free fee ticket !!

The happy girl who gets the 1-month free fee ticket is…

The tenant of Shinjuku-Nakano 3 !!!

Congratulation!

All the people you cheers are your family! It doesn’t matter which share house you are living in!

The party approach to the end.
People who came with their housemate of a friend were enjoying communication with people they just have met at the party. This is one of the pictures!

The nervous face at the beginning just go away at the end of the party! Everyone was at the party and enjoy their time.

We can conclude as the floor was on over-capacity, it makes the relation between people physically and psychologically more close.

The atmosphere filled with excitement doesn’t end even after the Borderless Christmas !

Good time end so quickly, we took a souvenir picture at the end!

See the close relationship between people! It looks like a family picture!

We cannot imagine that they are all just met a few hours before.

Even after the Christmas party, people cannot forget the atmosphere of excitement and they all went to an Izakaya ( casual Japanese restaurant).

This is a picture of the people who were gathered naturally after the party.

In this picture, we can]j see, a Japanese, a Korean, an Italian, a Russian, a British, and an American.

It completely represents this year’s theme: “extends beyond the house, the nationality, and the relation!”

By our Borderless party, a lot of emotional ties beyond nationality and language have arisen!

YOU, who wants to learn English or make international friends, YOU who are interested in a share house!

Borderless House is making many events that can maximize the connection between people.

Borderless House is a place that more than 50 countries are gathering. You can experience English but also so many other languages and cultures. It is a place that you can try national-oversea-experience!

Each sharehouse is made of 50%of foreigners and 50% of Japanese so you can surely experience international interaction!

You are always welcome to experience national-oversea-experience!

The next event is in May 2020 ! We are all waiting for your visit!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone!

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2019年12月19日2020年9月18日

【International Exchange Program】 Summer is about Somen!? Let’s experience Japanese cuisine that you can feel the season!

Hi! I’m Yuya, in charge of our blog.

The Food Experience Program “BORDERLESS DINERS ~Experience International Restaurants and Travel around the World~”

It’s been half a year since we started this program! The theme for August was Japanese food to go back to the basics and know about the food culture in the place we live!

Have fun and get full with two of our staff from Shimane and Yamagata, the good old countryside, Takuya and Takky!

Let’s start BORERLESS DINERS!

Happy Half a Year Anniversary for the launch of the program! Satisfying Japanese cuisine that you makes you feel summer!

Japanese cuisine is very deep and has various types of dishes and ways too cook.

One of the best parts of Japanese cuisine is you can feel each of four seasons from it.

There are a lot of dishes which express the beauty of nature or a season and are closely related to the Japanese annual events.

“So the Japanese menu this time is from the dish with a plenty of summer vegetables to the food for the summer festival.

Let’s enjoy summer in Japan in terms of food!

Flow, Flow and be Flown! Kick-start with Flowing Somem.

There is no summer without Somen!

When we dip the cold noodles cooled by ice in the cold soup and eat it, it feels like we get back the appetite that we lost because of heat.

Flowing Somen (Nagashi Somen in Japanese) is the summer tradition! In Flowing Somen,

Somen is flowing down a bamboo chute with ice-cold water and you catch and eat it!”

Someone just randomly thought “if we throw somen into flowing water, we will feel
summer very much, won’t we?”

As such, Flowing Somen was born in Kyushu and now it is the summer tradition.
So we kick-started with Flowing Somen to feel the absolute Japan.

First, we built the bamboo, then started throwing somen.

The flow was too fast to catch and eat Somen!

But gradually they were getting the tip and able to catch it!

One trouble of Flowing Somen is catching Somen is so much fun and eating it too much.

On the other hand, somen flowing in the bamboo chute looks so elegant and tasteful.

It was supposed to be a kick-start but we were already full.

Tried the traditional food “DASHI” (not the soy sauce dashi) of Yamagata!

The next cuisine is “DASHI”.

It is not about the “Dashi” (Japanese soy sauce beased on fish) but about a traditional food of Yamagata eaten in the summer.

It is a mixture of cucumber, eggplant, and myoga (japanese ginger). It can be use in many way, like put on tofu, on somen etc…

It is also a high nutritional value food so, it is the perfect food when you lose your appetite in summer!

In Yamagata region, DASHI is a soul food which appear in the fridge every summer. And people feel the begining of summer by seing the DASHI.

“DASHI” is highly recommended by our staff Takky !

The french resident who have tried “DASHI” said: ” It is similar to the ratatouille of France!”

Ratatouille is a french cuisine which is a simmered dish of summer vegetables, and it is normally eaten itself but it is also tasteful to put on cheese and meat !
Don’t you think that it is quite interesting that french cuisine and the cuisine of Yamagata region have some similarities ??

Finding similarities between different culture is one of the enjoyable point of this program.

Cucumber and Miso soup is our friend (OR BEST PARTENER) of summer ! Let’s resolve summer weariness!

The second cuisine is Cold miso soup.

It is a typical summer food eaten in different regions like Yamagata, Saitama, and Miyagi.

The recipy is : make some cold miso soup of cucumber and seasoning and put on hot rice. It is easy to make and easy to eat even you have lose appetite because of the high temperature of summer.

In the world, we can find some cold soup like vichyssoise or gazpacho. But in Japan it is not common to eat cold soup, and as we usually eat hot miso soup, for some Japanese, cold miso soup was a culture shock!

“Cold miso soup is delicious so we will made it in our house!” said our residents with their shiny smiles and they all have a refill of it.

Kaki-gori (shaved ice) the typical food of Matsuri (summer festival) was also eaten by Murasaki-shikibu (Japanese novelist) !?

Kagi-gori is the perfect dessert for summer!

Kaki-gori is normally eaten in Natu-matsuri or Ennnichi ( japanese summer festival).

These days, Korean and Taiwanese kaki-gori is famous globally, we all have an image that kaki-gori is a modern food. However, the first time it was eaten was in Heian period (794~1185)!

In the famous book called “Makura-no-soushi”, they is a part that written about the shaved iced with honey. We can understand that kaki-gori is a traditional food with a long story.

It is loved globally even the taste and the form are changing by time.
It is emotional when we think deeply about it!

About the culture of “Washoku” (Japanese food) which is registrated on intangible cultural asset.

Today’s theme “Washoku” is registated in the intangible cultural asset.

The reason is because of it rareness. Indeed, it is globally not common to use diverse type of ingredients and we can also find a strong persistence to the food culture.

The Japanese cuisine change under season and event. We can understand how much Washoku have lived with culture.

Our resident was also very suprised of the fact that Washoku which is very familiar to us was registrated in the intangible cultural asset.

“Itadakimasu” (let’s eat) and “Gochisousama”(Thank you for the meal) are some gretting we can only find in Japan?

The another reason why Japanese food is included in intangible cultural asset is because of it rare greeting.

“Itadakimasu” and “Gochisousama” is a only Japanese gretting which we cannot translate in other language.

This greeting is based on Shinto religion which conciste to believe that god is everywhere. And it become ingrained in our culture to show our respect and gratitude to the ingredients, to the person who cooked the food and to the person who have procured the ingredients.

Thanks to this program, it was an opportunity to find that they are so much thing we don’t know about a culture even if we are living in.

Vietnam this week! The travelling restaurant which we can taste the world every month !

『BORDERLESS DINERS～Taste the world by the travelling restaurant ～』is a experience based program for the residents held every month !

The next country is Vietnam!

Two chefs who are wearing Ao dai ( Traditional Vietnamese costume) are going to cook some festival Vietnam cuisine!

Normally, Pho is a typical cuisine but you can try other food and taste deep Vietnamese culture!

What kind of experience can we do the next travelling ?

Looking forward to the next report !

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2019年11月15日2020年8月18日

【Let’s travel abroad!】 Your housemates are waiting for you even in other countries!

Hello, this is Borderless House!

Do you like traveling abroad?

Borderless House has share houses in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. So we have a special program only for our tenants which you can stay in other share houses in other countries for free.

It’s called “House Exchange Program”.

You can stay for 5 nights at minimum and for 1 month at maximum so it is convenient when you go to other countries for travel or short study on vacation!

If you use this program when you travel alone to a country you visit for the first time, how will it be..?

Today, let me introduce Motomu who is living in a house in Tokyo and came to Korea, using this House Exchange Program.

Motomu’s profile

・4th grade in a university in Tokyo
・Going to start working in his hometown from next spring
・Living in Borderless House for more than half a year
・Moved in Borderless House in order to practice English and make friends from other countries
・Likes music, calligraphy, cooking, and Kendo

（↓ Once he moved in, he could get friends at his house! He is on the left.）

What made you use “House Exchange Program”?

That’s because I can have housemates even in the country where I never visited before and I can be a friend of them!

And I don’t need to pay any fee so it was also an attractive point! It is a nice concept for students who don’t have enough money. lol

（↓He could easily get close to his housemates within a few hours!）

Why KOREA？

I decided to visit Korea this time because I’m from Fukuoka which is really close to Korea and most of my friends already had visited Korea.

I had been thinking that I wanted to visit as soon as possible while I have enough time.　

And also I like spicy food so I wanted to try them!

（↓Korean food Motomu tried while he was in Korea,）

How did you spend time with your housemates?

I could enjoy the time with all the housemates!

On my arrival day, one of the housemates Alice cooked food for me. She is a really warm and kind person like a mother for everyone. I was really happy for her warm welcome.

If I go to the living room, I could meet someone so I think I was drinking all the time with my housemates. lol

There were Japanese tenants and they guided me to some famous sightseeing places. We visited some historical places and enjoyed Korean food together.

I ate a lot and drank a lot but it was super fun!

（↓The places he visited.）

What was the most memorable experience?

It was the drinking with a housemate and the housemate’s friend and the friend’s friend. lol Most of the members meet each other for the first time.

At first, I thought only I was the new person but later I got to know that most of us were the first time to meet and there was a person who lived in Borderless House Kyoto and came to Korea just for a trip.

It was unexpected members but connected with Borderless House so we could be close soon and it was the most fun moment in my stay!

（↓Eating Korean food together.）

Did you discover any new things in yourself?

The house I stayed in Korea was bigger than the one I live in Tokyo and the house has more members and an at-home atmosphere.

It might be because of the big number of people but everyone was just like a family member and I would like to see them again.

Koenji2 House has really fancy facilities with a music studio. However, some members use the studio just for their own purpose. I hope we can use the place together in order to make our community more active. I thought it was important to change their minds gradually!

I want to tell that to my housemates in Korenji2 House in order to reproduce the at-home atmosphere in my house in Seoul!

（↓At Han River at night.）

Any other things to tell?

I want Borderless House in the United States and Australia, too! lol

(Staff: Oh, yes! We will do our best to realize it !!!!)　

（↓Near the house. All tenants like the neighbor dog.）

Editorial note

In Japan, he usually welcomes housemates from other countries as a local person but in Seoul, he was welcomed by his housemates as a new housemate from another country.

It must have been a new experience for him.

Your housemates are waiting for you in other countries which you never visited before.
Borderless House is such community that you can connect to the world.

Why don’t you try to have an at-home travel experience like this in Borderless House? It must be totally different from the one alone.

Please check it our the detail of House Exchange Program here!

2019年11月7日2020年8月18日

【Survey before Working Holiday!?】What he learned in three countries’ Borderless House

Hello! This is Ayako from Borderless House.
Are you enjoying the autumn atmosphere?

This time I did an interview with a tenant, Wonseok from Korea.

Actually, he stayed in three countries’ Borderless House, in Kyoto, Seoul, and Taipei! And it seemed to become a good opportunity for him before preparing Working Holiday.

Let me ask him about his experience in detail!

Stayed in Taiwan for House Exchange Program!

ーHe stayed in three different countries’ Borderless House

Staff：　Thank you for accepting my interview today!

Wonseok：　My pleasure!

Staff：　Actually, it is really rare for us to have a tenant who stayed in three countries’ Borderless House. May I ask how come it happened?

Wonseok：　First, I moved to Borderless House KANSAI when I entered the university in Japan and lived there for a year.

After that, I came back to Korea in order to prepare for military service. Since I still had time until going to the military so I stayed in Borderless House Korea for 5 months.

While I was living there, I stayed in Borderless House Taipei for a week, using House Exchange Program.

I will move out Borderless House Korea soon and then go to the military.

Staff：　Oh so you stayed in Taiwan for House Exchange!

*House Exchange Program is a special program for tenants in which they can stay in other countries’ Borderless House for 5 days to 1 month for free.

（↓He spent the longest time in Kyoto, Borderless House Hanazono.）

A feeling of safety as a “foreigner” in Japan

ーWhy Borderless House?

Staff：　Did you have any reason you decided to live in a share house in Japan first?

Wonseok：　I had known about share house itself and I thought it was good because I don’t need to pay the expensive initial fees and also don’t need to purchase furniture.

First, I searched on the internet and found a lot of share houses but Borderless House was the only one that has a concept like the half tenants are locals and another half tenants are people from other countries.

From that concept, I felt like I could be accepted by the people there although I came from another country.

Staff：　I see. Not only the convenience of the initial fees but the feeling of safety was also a big reason to choose the accommodation.

（↓Hanazono House Family）

Each house has each nice things

ーWas there any difference between the three different countries’ house life?

Wonseok：　Basically I enjoyed myself a lot at each house!

Staff：　When you were in Japan, half numbers of the tenants were Japanese, right?

Wonseok：　Yes! What I got surprised was, most of the housemates who are from other countries could speak Japanese. So I was also using Japanese all the time.

Staff：　What about the house in Korea?

Wonseok：　The common language was English. In Korea, I am a local person, not a foreigner so my roommate was from Belgium.

However, I chose a house which has a few Japanese tenants so I could also use English and it was really nice for me!

Staff：　What about in Taiwan?

Wonseok：　I think it was Taiwanese and English. There was a Japanese tenant so he helped me a lot! lol

Staff：　That’s the good point of Borderless House which has various nationalities.

Is there any difference among about how to spend time with housemates?

Wonseok：　In KANSAI, Borderless House Hanazono, I was drinking with my housemates almost every day. lol

In Korea, I was a bit busy with a part-time job but of course, I drank or hanged out with my housemates sometimes.

In Taiwan, they don’t drink that much so I relaxed at home when I spent time with them.

（↓His Second house, Chungjeongno1 House in Korea.）

It became a Working Holiday survey. Traveling without any accommodation fee!

ーHouse Exchange to Taiwan

Staff：　You are so fluent in Japanese but are you also studying Chinese?

Wonseok：　Yes. I was also interested in Taiwan so I started to study Chinese recently.

Staff：　Is that the reason you decided to travel to Taiwan?

Wonseok：　That’s right. If I use House Exchange Program, I don’t need to pay any accommodation fee and I can make friends immediately at the house so I think this is a really nice program.

I’ve been thinking about going to Taiwan for Working Holiday so it became a really good opportunity for me because I could get to know about Taiwan in advance.

Staff：　Wow, that sounds really nice!

Wonseok：　Absolutely. Tenants in Taiwan have been living there more than for a few months so I could ask them about life in Taiwan, culture, and working in detail.

I could get to know about real life in Taiwan which I couldn’t get to know in Korea. Then I could get many tips to think about Working Holiday there!

Staff：　That’s really nice to hear that!

Wonseok：　There was a staff of Borderless House who can speak Korean so the procedures were not so hard. And it was nice for me, too.

（↓With Connie, staff in Taiwan who can communicate in Korean.）

How to enjoy share house life when we want to be alone.

ー How was your staying in share houses in different countries?

Wonseok：　For total, it was really fun and I want to live in Borderless House again.

Staff：　Generally speaking, there are some people who feel awkward to live in a share house but you didn’t have that kind of feeling?

Wonseok：　Yeah, I can understand that feeling. In share house, always someone is in the house though that’s the good point of share house, I also felt like I want to be alone sometimes, honestly. lol

Staff：　How did you solve it when you had that kind of feeling?

Wonseok：　In Japan, my room was a private room so I tried to spend my own time alone. In Korea, I sometimes went back to my hometown or went to a cafe alone.

As long as I can take the balance by myself, we can enjoy the life in share house!

Staff：　I see… You know well because you spent a lot of time!!!!

Thank you very much for telling me precious stories. You might have a hard time in the military but I’m looking forward to seeing you again somewhere in Borderless House after you finished!

Wonseok：　Me, too! Thank you very much!!

Staff：　Thank you!!!!

（↓Beer with housemates from Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Korea）

Why don’t you try “Experience Abroad” using Borderless House?

ーEditorial note

How was his interview? He stayed in Japan and Taiwan as a foreigner and stayed in Korea as a local while enjoying the international exchange.

In Borderless House, you can practice English or Japanese while living in Korea and also can get to know about life in Taiwan while living in Korea like him.

If you are interested in Workihg Holiday or Studying abroad, why don’t you try to have the “Experience Abroad” in Borderless House?

Now we have “2+1” campaign only for Korean! (If you move in by December 15)
Looking forward to your inquiry!

Call to 02-363-5348 or Send us a message!

2019年10月23日2020年8月18日

[BORDERLESS HOUSE] Moving out review of the house supporters “보들보들”

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul Team.

Our house support 보들 보들 finally finished their work on last August 24.
They stayed in Borderless House for the whole summer
and tried their best to make our house be more wonderful place.

We are going to tell you about the last story of them now!

There is our house supporter Suzy!
Actually she left our house first because of her studies .

She is studying in US, so she stayed in Borderless House during her vacation .
Even though it was not a long time to stay in share house , she said,
“the experience in share house was really helpful to get used to school life in US “

Suzy was always enthusiastic to learn new cultures and communicate with housemate, and that is why she could enhance her English a lot for a short time.

Take care and keep in touch with us Suzy!

Yujin in Hongdae 2 house said the most precious memory during her staying was sharing feeling with her roommates .
She said, “I know how hard to live as a foreigner , so I tried to sympathize with them more and help them to get used to the life in Korea ”
she also made an effort to communicate with roommates to keep the house clean and comfortable .
As a house supporter, she made a new cleaning rule which is more reasonable for housemates .

We highly appreciate that Yujin always tried to kindly care our housemate.

There is the winner of our SNS posting competition ! Congratulation!
Yujin in Janghangpyeong 1 house got so much compliments from her housemates!

Yujin was definitely happy virus in Janghangpyeong 1 house.
We would like to share one of the messages from Janghangpyeng house !

“Being with Yujin, it was much easier to get close with other housemates .
Yujin made an effort to invite all to have a conversation each other .
Thank you Yujin to be our house supporter! We had a wonderful time with you!”

We can find the lovely girls of Gangnam 2 house in the picture.
Actually, Hyun is the house supporter who was being with us until the end .

Also, her house mate left a message to us that Hyun helped her a lot to get used to Korea . She felt really sad to let Hyun go.
So, she waited Hyun to see her off and they made a promise to meet again !

We have received a lot of messages from our housemates !
They said, “the time in Borderless house was very precious memory and we would keep in touch continually !”
Also, Hyun said, “I highly recommend to live in share house for someone especially who is a student looking for a special plan for their vacation ! “

Look at the cute memory board by the supporters. : D

This was a challenge even for us, because it was the first time to try house supporters .
Therefore, there were some weak points as well.
We will improve the plan and will make the activity more meaningful and pleasant!

Thank you so much for the efforts everyone !!

Good bye the 1st 보들 보들 ~

2019年10月21日2019年10月21日

[BORDERLESS HOUSE] The review of the 3rd&4th week share house life from the supporters “보들보들”

Hello, this is Seoul share house Borderless house.
On this posting, we will tell you the 3 ^rd 4 ^th week review of house supports 보들 보들.

Hyun in Borderless Ganganm 2 house went to Jeonju with her house mates this weekend!

Our Gangnam 2 tenants with Hanbok are so beautiful and sweet, are not they? ♥♥
They went to little bit far away from Seoul, and their faces got more brighten up!
We hope we can go on a trip with our tenants next time . ♡ (1’ᴗ`1) ♡

They also made a Mukbang show. 😊
We are receiving many food pictures and it makes us very hungry . TT
We will share with you a lot of the food pictures,
so let ‘s enjoy them even in pictures.

Yujin in Hongade 4 house sent daily photos with her roommate.
Now they look like best friends and seem to resemble each other .

Look at those cute jelly rings.
We can tell with the photos that they are having a lovely summer night in the share house .

In the summer time,
it is surely better to have a cold beer under the A / C at home than go outside!
It would be doubly happy to have roommates who can be with .

Yujin in Janghanpyeong 1 house said she spend most of the time with her roommate Yui .
Also they went to watch a movie ‘Exit’and had bingsu (Korean style ice flakes) together.

By the way, did you hear that the total number of the audiences of the movie ‘Exit’was over nine million?
If you did not watch it yet and you like light comedy and action movies , we highly recommend it!

Suzy in Borderless Yeongdeungpo 1 house sent us a picture of birthday party in share house !
We can find they were having a awesome night .
Suzy said, “it was not a big party but we felt that we got really close after the party . “

Have you ever been suffering from loneliness?
Sometimes we feel very lonely if there is no close friend around us .
We know how hard it is.
But, in our share house, you always can be with good friends.

Also, All roommates in Yeongdeungpo 1 are outgoing and know how to enjoy night life in Seoul well .
You definitely will make wonderful memories with them!

Next photo is from Dong-in who is staying in Sangsu 1 house.
Aww, it looks like they promised to make a same pose .
Where are the peaches from?
They look so happy 🙂

This is the living room of Chungjeongno 1 house!
We can find our staff Ayaya and Dong-in!
Ayaya is our staff from Japan.
She invited some tenants from other houses and had a party with them !
Actually, all of them are from different countries : Switzerland, Japan and Korea! But, they look like enjoying the party in their own way😊

Wait! Are they having CHIMAC?
We are desperately hoping to join the party next time ! CHIMAC … ..!

Also, we got a picture from Sangsu 1 house!
They cooked for themselves and had a wonderful dinner with traditional dishes from different countries .

After the party, they went to Noraebang.
They sent us video shot at Noraebang.
We could easily find how much they enjoyed Noraebang moment,
but the video is going to be a secret between us haha !

Do you think you are a good cook?
you should come to Borderless house!
There will be a plenty of chances to show your talent and make new friends !
Or are you a kind of person who loves to learn new cultures by trying international food ?
You definitely will fall in love with our house !

There might be plenty of benefits to live and share your life with others .
But, the most beneficial one to live with someone is that you can have a big living room !
It is not easy to live in house with a living room especially in Seoul .
However, in Borderless house, you can share enough place with your roommates and have fun at any time you want !

Especially, Hongdae 2 house is known for the house which has a wide living room and that is why we had the August event ‘ The Bibbim ‘right here!

We always appreciate your efforts to make our house be a place we would feel comfortable in!

2019年9月28日2020年8月18日

【Tenant Interview】What’s good in Borderless House?

Annyeonghaseyo! This is Borderless House Seoul.
Summer has gone and it is getting good weather day by day!

This time’s topic is the interview of a tenant.

We had an interview with Minji, who has lived in Chungjeongno1 House about her share house life in Borderless House.

Why sharehouse? What was good in Borderless House?
If you haven’t lived in a share house and if you are interested in living in a sharehouse, please check it out!

“After traveling abroad, I wanted to know more about other countries’ culture.”

At first, why did you need to move to a new place?

Minji: My university is far from Seoul. I needed to do an intern in Seoul for two months during summer vacation so I was looking for an accommodation where I can stay for a short time.

Staff: I see. If you choose a share house, the room is furnished and the deposit is cheap so I agree that it is good for a person who wants to live for a short time. What kind of internship was it by the way?

Minji: I’m studying pharmacy so I’m doing an internship at a hospital. We have to do that in order to get the credit.

Staff: Wow, so cool..!!!!

Minji: My housemates reacted the same when I was washing my white coat at the common space. lol

(Minji and Staff Ayako)

Why did you choose Borderless House?

Minji: A few months ago, I just traveled in Europe for a month. It was really fun so I wanted to know more about other countries’ culture or languages even after my travel. The concept of Borderless House was perfect for me.

And the staff in Borderless House was really nice so I got a good impression. Her way to explanation was really clear. I appreciate her help!

Staff: We are so glad to hear that! Thank you! Did you think about other share houses, too?

Minji: I had room viewing for the other two companies’ share houses. They have only Korean tenants and I couldn’t see how they enjoy their life together so I didn’t get interested in them.

Borderless House is located close to the station and I like the area. The security is nice, too.

(Chungjeongno1 House is a really active community!)

Discussion at Han River

-How was the life in Borderless House?

Minji: I really enjoyed my stay here for 2 months. I enjoyed meals, drinking, hanging out and even clubbing with my housemates from various countries!

Staff: What is your most impressive memory?

Minji: It’s the discussion at Han River with my housemates. lol

We went there with my housemates from Switzerland, Germany and Japan. We put the picnic sheets and we were enjoying talking but it became a big discussion while seeing nice sunset. lol

Staff: Discussion on the picnic sheet! How cool! lol

Minji: We were talking about the cultural differences between Asia and Europe and also about how we accept it and live in different country. The way how to accept the cultural difference was different by person so we told our own opinion each other and it became a big discussion.

Staff: How did the discussion end? Didn’t you feel any awkward after that?

Minji: Not at all. We didn’t have a same opinion but it is natural and we ended up with the agreement that there were lots of way of thinking and opinions.

Staff: Yeah, I agree that we don’t need to have a same opinion and it is important to get to know many ways of thinking. Did you talk in English?

Minij: Yes. I’m not good at speaking in English but we usually use gestures or translation app when we have difficulties.

(At Han River!)

Following the basic rule is important.

-Did you have any inconvenience in daily life?

Minji: The washing machine was a bit old and we needed more light in the stairs.

Staff: Oh I see. Sorry to hear that..!!!!

Minji: No worries! lol There were rules for taking out the trash and we have to tell our housemates in advance when we invite our friends to the house. So even if we have different culture, we follow the rules and live in comfort.

(Taking out trash chore in Chungjeongno1 house)

You can have many friends from other countries!

-As a final question, To whom would you like to recommend Borderless House?

Minji: Like me, who needs to live in Seoul for a short term. And also people who are living alone, feeling lonely or who wants to have simulations in life and people who wants to have friends from various countries!

Staff: I see. If you live in Borderless House, you can meet people who you don’t meet in daily life, right?

Minji: Yes, if I didn’t live in Borderless House, I didn’t go club nor have a discussion. We lived together so we could become close. Even after my move out, I would like to keep in touch with them.

Staff: It was a short period but we are glad that you enjoyed living in Borderless House! Thank you very much!

Minji: Thank you!

How was the interview? which Minji stayed is a big house which 18 people live together. This house is really nice for the people who want to meet many people!

Even if you cannot speak other languages, no problem at all! Everyone in this house has same situation. Tenants in Borderless House are living together with consideration and the mind trying to understand or respect others and helping each other.

We are looking forward to having you to our community!

★Chungjeongno1 House information is HERE!

2019年9月21日2019年9月21日

[BORDERLESS HOUSE] The 1st House Supporters 보들보들’s Share House Life

Hello, this is Borderless Hosue Seoul Team 🙂
We are going to tell you about the first review of 보들 보들 (Borderless house Seoul supporters).

HONGDAE 4 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “YUJIN HA”

Yujin in Borderless Hongdae 2 house felt nervous when she moved in, but her roommate Nana was so nice and welcoming that the worries went away.

Also, they got closer by having meal in the famous restaurant in Hongdae and going to karaoke together . One of the most basic but most important activities of the supporters is having a meal with housemates , and we can tell only with the picture that the restaurant is very nice!

Yujin is interacting with not only the house mates in the same house
but also the tenant living in the different house.
Carla is from Spain studying Journalism and going to stay in Korea for 3 months. She really wants to experience as much as she can during her staying.
She would be able to experience deeper Korean culture thanks to share house supporter Yujin !

SANGSU 1 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “DONGIN CHOI”

Dongin in Borderless Sangsu 1 house could get closer with Sayuri from Japan and Tiara from Taiwan ,
because they spent a lot of their free time in the common area .

When we asked what you want to do with foreigners in the share house ,
the most frequent answer was

“I want to make their own countries ‘food and share them with everyone!” .

And it is not a big deal in Sangsu 1 house!
The Japanese tenant made Okonomiyaki, the Thai tenant made Pad Thai
and the Korean made Kimchi fried rice and Kimchi pancake and ate all together.
Dongin said, dinner is his favorite time and he is looking forward to this every day!

GANGNAM 2 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “HYUN LEE”

보들 보들 Hyun in Gangnam 2 house is writing Naver blog posts about her share house life and the supporters activities .
If you search ‘ 보더리스 하우스 (Borderlesshouse)’on Naver, you can find them.

CHEONGNYANGNI 1 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “MINJIN JO”

Minjin in Cheongnyangni 1 house had cheese Dakgalbi (spicy stir-fried chicken) with her house mates! Acually, Dakgalbi is one of the most popular Korean food for foreigners . They look so happy, do not they? : D
I am getting hungry as keeping watching pictures of foods …

JANGHANPYEONG 1 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “YUJIN GANG”

There is another Yujin in Janghanpyeong 1 house!
She is really bright and kind that the atmosphere in the house is totally changed after she moved in .

Yongjun was our former tenant who already moved out a few month ago ,
but he has been keeping in touch with the friends !
So he joined Yujin ‘s welcome party.

The easiest way to get to know each other is to eat delicious food together .
Thanks to Yujin, it seems like Janghanpyong 1 House has lighted up.

YEONGDEUNGPO 1 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “SUZY LEE”

The tenants in Yeongdeungpo 1 house are interacted with each other the most among our 23 share houses.
Suzy is going to school in USA and came to Korea for her summer break .
She wants to keep using English in Korea as well , that is why she decided to join the supporters program.
she could not expect to speak English this much beforehand , but now she is totally satisfied with her decision and having so much fun in this share house .

We are very happy to see the pictures that we can tell their good community !
They are going for the dinner together every day , even when they are tired because of hard work !

HONDAE 2 HOUSE SUPPORTERS “SEYOUNG KIM”

Seyoung in Borderless Hongdae 2 house recently moved in and already got closer to the others .
She enjoyed her first night with fried chicken and beer with the house mates .

1 week after she moved into the share house ,,,

She loves talking and are good at leading the conversation ,
so the time she chat with her house mates at night in the bed is her favorite .
Thanks to her effort, they could know more about each other!

Today, we have simply shown 보들 보들 ‘s first week review in the share houses.
We will come back with more fun review soon ! (ง • _ •) ง

2019年9月3日2019年9月3日

We held the international event “The Bibim” in Seoul!

Anyeonghaseyo! This is Borderless House Seoul.

How was your summer vacation?
On, August 15th was the independence day, which has a special meaning in Korea.

On the day, we Borderless House Seoul held an event “The Bibim” for international exchange at one of our share house.
Today we would like to share about this event in this blog!

The first event by Borderless House Supporters!

This event was planned and managed by Borderless House Supporters who are students and living in our house to support the house community and management. They started planning a few weeks before. In order to make it a good event, they gathered at our office several times and prepared well.

Although the outside was raining, over 20 tenants joined to this event from different houses!

The main content of this event was to make Korean food “bibimpab” by winning some games. If the team could win the game, they can get a dish to put on the rice to make bibimpab.
The name of the game is, “The Bibim”!!!!

(We gathered at Borderless House Hongdae2, which has a huge living room.)

Exciting game to get the dish!

The first round was, “Who drank alcohol?”.

4 members of the team drink a cup of water or alcohol in front of everyone at the same timing. Only one cup has alcohol (Soju) so the audience will point out who drank the alcohol. If the team could fake and the person who drank the alcohol didn’t get pointed out, the team can get one dish for bibimpab!

Since the team could think about how they cheat the audience beforehand, some teams tried to pretend that they all drink water or other teams pretended that they all drink Soju. Each team did great acting!
（This is Dani, pretended to drink water although she drank a cup of Soju.）

The second round is “Speed Drawing”

3 members in one team draw one object together by 3 seconds each. Then another member answer what they tried to draw. If he or she answered the correct one, the team can get the dish.
3 seconds is super short! Even if we are grabbing a pen, staff will take it off after 3 seconds. It was really difficult to complete drawing and we laughed a lot by seeing the weird picture!

What is this, you think?
The answer is.. Penguin!!

The third round is “Gesture Game”!

We take turns in a team and if we can get correct answers more than a certain number, we can get the dish. This game can be learning of new language.

“Ahhhh, that word.. in my language, we say XX but how do you call it in Korean or English?” “It is XX!!” like that.

（She is trying to express the word “Exciting”. It was difficult!）

The fourth round is “Gongi (Air) game”!

This is a Korean traditional game. We throw small balls up and catch by the back of the hand. And we throw them up again then catch them by hand. We compete for the number of balls which we could catch as a result.

This is actually super difficult! Since this is a Korean traditional game, most of the Korean members got high points! Members from other countries, they reacted like can you do that?”.

We have these balls in our office so when you visit our office for the payment, why don’t you try it?

（Can you guess if she could catch the balls?!）

The last round is “Intro Quiz”!

As you know, we listen to an intro of the music and answer the title of the music.
“I know! I know this song but I forgot the title..! What was that?”

（The last round was so exciting!）

Finally, we can eat!

Now all the games are done. Unfortunately, there were some teams which couldn’t get all the dishes but we share every kind of dishes finally and the delicious bibimbap was completed!

The “Bibim” International exchange

“Bibim” means “mix” in Korean. Famous Korean food “Bibimpab” consists from “Bibim” (mix) and “Pab” (rice).

In this event, tenants from Korea, Japan, UK, USA, Mexico, Germany, and Thailand joined. We enjoy the language and Korean culture by playing the games together. It was just like “Bibim” of culture.

On the independence day of Korea, people from various countries gathered in one place, laughed a lot together and enjoyed Koran culture together. This event became a kind of touching one as Borderless House Staffs who wish for peace in the world.

Special Thanks!

For supporters, who did from planning to preparing and MC, every organizing really well, thank you very much!

For Borderless Staff Bona, who was organizing supporter members, Rani, who was preparing bankside like cooking, Yona, who made the atmosphere exited, thank you very much!!
（Our staff cooked the dish for bibimpab!）

（Supporters!）

What the next event is..? Please be looking forward to it!!!!