As someone who love watching k-dramas and listening to k-pop, I feel like VPN is becoming an essential tool for international fans.
Sometimes, k-entertainment can be very restricting to certain regions that makes it unnecessarily hard for some of us to access them. So in this post I will be showing you how I personally overcome that!
First, you need to find a VPN that works for you. What is VPN, you may ask?
VPN stands for virtual private network. In layman's term, it's basically used to hide your actual device's IP address with another IP address (thus the name "virtual") to trick the internet into thinking your location is not where you actually are. Some use it for safety purposes (like when using public wifi), others use it for this kind of accessibility purposes.
My personal fav is Psiphon. It was recommended to me when I needed to access restricted contents (like KissAsian to watch kdramas) when using the student's wifi.
Here is the download link https://psiphon3.com/en/download.html. You first need to download and install it in your PC. I personally don't really use the app version, so it might work differently through the app.
Once you've downloaded and installed Psiphon, you can simply run the application every time you want to access any restricted content.
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| This is how the desktop app should look like when running. |
You can simply disconnect it to get your local IP address back. Easy as that!
However, this VPN do have a limited list of countries you can connect to. For my case, South Korea is not in the list, so Korean contents are still not directly available for me. However, contents that is available to USA is easily available once I turn this on. Most of the time, that worked well enough for me.
I never really had a need to change to other VPN in the 5 years of using this, but feel free to try other software if this doesn't work for you.
That is it for this little tutorial, hope you could benefit from it.
Dropping by,
Melynn.
