The Squatters at the Paradise Hotel

A true story about Jeju Island expats and their sense of privilege

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I used to be an expat in Jeju Island, South Korea, and I wasn’t in the cool crowd. We used to say that expat life there was pretty much like high school — except my actual high school didn’t have drama and cliques the way the expat community in Jeju did. One of the ways I excluded myself from…