Many single foreigners move to the Philippines partly in search of companionship. That’s not a secret, and it’s not a scandal. But the ones who build something real here almost always arrive looking for a life first — and let everything else follow.

South Korea's housing costs, suffocating work culture, and demographic pressures are pushing a quiet but growing wave of single professionals in their 30s and 40s to consider something their parents' generation would have found unthinkable: leaving. This is their guide.

There is a word in the Japanese language that has no adequate translation in English, because no other culture has felt the need to name what it describes quite so precisely.