Close your eyes and place yourself in one of the busiest cities near you.

For me it's New York City. It's loud. The streets are cramped with all sorts of people rushing to catch the train.

There are tourists everywhere looking for directions to go,

crying babies, cars honking at each other,

traffic is a mess, the weather's not looking good,

the bus is running late, and you're tired after a long day of work.

But now, just take a moment and breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe because you need some time for yourself.

Breathe because you need some time for yourself. You need to focus and get away from all the chaos around you.

It's time to space out.

Aminula Morales I'm Nolo Morales and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange incredible and wondrous places. Today we're sitting down, relaxing, and doing absolutely nothing as we head to South Korea

to explore a very unusual contest called the Space Out competition. More after this. I'm going to Actually, recently I was on a famous talk show in Korea and there I was introduced as a person with 10 jobs.

This is Soa Kwan. She has been living in South Korea since she was 16.

Today she's a freelance broadcaster for a South Korea network.

But as you heard, this is not a horny job.

Voice actor, translator, interpreter,

did I have reporter, sometimes I do modeling so yeah it could be 10 but you know I don't do those like every day so the main things are I'm on TV, radio, and on the stage for MC gigs.

And this year, Soa Kwan added something new to her resume.

She won the space-out competition.

Because I am a news person, I actually already saw the first the inaugural competition back 10 years ago just in the news. So I just found it's a very interesting competition and

thought yeah why don't like try it out myself one day but then 10 years went by and then I found out that this year's 10th anniversary

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