Probably many people already know that I am moving to Seoul, Korea in this summer, as I take an assistant professor position at Department of Physics, Korea University. How do I feel nowadays? Maybe it’s exciting, but to be honest, it’s also quite overwhelming with so many things to end my stay in Germany and to prepare for new start in Korea. I have been constantly busy with ‘life’, while desparately trying to keep up with my research (productivity is so low though, and I only have ‘good ideas’ with no time).
This week, I start to see more progress, in clearing the apartment in Germany, in preparing for the move to a new apartment in Seoul, and in processing necessary administrations. Yet I haven’t even had a moment to look back how the life in Germany have been like so far and to imagine how the new life is going to be like soon in Korea. For the moment, I feel so ‘being temporary. My mind is neither in Germany nor Korea! I hope my mind becomes more settled in July, which I planned as a buffer month. Maybe everything would suddenly feel so real.
Spintronics, Orbitronics, and Physics Beyond 
Oh, congratulations for the position in Korea University! I was graduated from there, my supervisor was the last condensed matter theorist in the department and just retired. I am happy to see another condensed matter theorist joining the department.