Chen Teng's loft-style apartment in Seoul.Chen Teng.Chen Teng left her corporate job in New York to move to South Korea in 2016.Her initial two-year stay in Seoul has since extended into eight years and counting.Now, she lives in a cozy loft and pays 870,000 Korean won, or $640, for rent each month.Feeling trapped at her digital marketing job in corporate America, Chen Teng made a spur-of-the-moment decision to quit and move to a different country.The native New Yorker, whose family is of Taiwanese descent, had always wanted to live in Asia, and it finally felt like the right time for her to make it happen.Chen Teng moved from New York to Seoul in her early 20s.@moontakesphotos"I was working in New York in the typical office, and I just felt a bit trapped in a way.