Jung Seung-ho / CEO
Started a guesthouse while working an ordinary office job and founded The Capsule in 2017 — Korea's first company dedicated to capsules, which runs its own capsule hotels and builds sleeping-capsule beds.
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Published posts14
ESSAY: Escape from Hahoetal—Diary of a Nobody Salaryman, Part 14
A Seoul salaryman quits corporate life to run a guesthouse full-time. The final chapter of one founder's journey from side investor to full-time hospitality operator.
ESSAY: Escaping the Office Grind (Chapter 13)
Jung Seung-ho opens Seoul Dalbit Guesthouse after months of renovations, permit battles, and anxious waiting. Day one: empty rooms, nervous energy, and the reality that running a legal guesthouse in Korea starts now.
ESSAY: A Corporate Drone's Escape — Chapter 12
A former office worker trades spreadsheets for guesthouse construction in Seoul's Dongdaemun. First-time renovator navigates contractor delays, plumbing mishaps, and the gap between blueprints and reality.
ESSAY: Hahoe Mask — An Insignificant Office Worker's Escape, Part 11
A Seoul guesthouse owner's construction diary: regulation rewrites slash 30 planned rooms down to 19. Revenue projections tumble, but the project moves forward anyway.
ESSAY: Hahoetal — An Insignificant Office Worker's Escape, Part 10
Wandering in circles — when you don't know what to do next.
ESSAY: Hahoetal — An Office Worker's Escape, Part 09
Jung Seung-ho opens his calculator to see if a 3,000-square-foot Dongdaemun building can become Seoul Dalbit Guesthouse. Three hospitality rookies, zero construction experience, one question: how many rooms actually fit?
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