What I found there changed everything. Simply put, Korea’s clinical innovation is setting the global standard with treatments in Seoul that aren’t even available in the US. But I also arrived as any woman would — alone in a city of thousands of clinics, navigating a language barrier, trying to communicate across platforms I didn't know and a time difference that made even a simple question feel like an obstacle. I figured it out, slowly and imperfectly. And the whole time, I kept thinking: this shouldn't be this hard.