This is the Happy Pod for the BBC World Service.

I'm Vanessa Heaney and in this edition

uploaded on Saturday the 1st of June. We're in South Korea and meet the

winner of the Spaced Out competition. I think the core essence of

spacing out is just learning to rest and enjoying that rest.

The two friends aiming to fix the relationship between two countries.

Every moment of the day there are people cheering,

showing the kids to the other side of the family

that lives on the other country,

and you feel it sometimes even bringing musicians and making parties on both sides of the border.

One podcast at a time.

Also in this podcast, The Hungry Sea Line which hitches a ride on a rowing team's boat.

He was just walking around kind of in circles on the dock, you know, just like spinning.

So that's when you can really tell the fuckers something wrong with him. Hello.

What pops into your mind when you think of South Korea?

Snazzy K-pop videos, high-tech electronics may be,

neon-lit cities.

But just 70 years ago, this Asian country was torn apart by war.

Its remarkable transformation into one of the richest in the world has been well documented,

but such rapid growth didn't come without a price.

Modern South Korea is a hyper competitive society with a strict work culture

where many South Koreans are simply too anxious to take a break for fear of falling behind.

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