After college, Binsky took a job teaching English in
Seoul,
South Korea. He spent 18 months teaching there, earned his
black belt in
Taekwondo and traveled to 20 countries in
Asia during that time. In 2015, he quit his teaching job and began focusing on traveling full-time, He also had started a travel blog called "The Hungry Partier" (later renamed "Drew Binsky") In May 2017, he uploaded a video of an organized trip to
North Korea on his YouTube and
Facebook channels. In 2018, he began living in and working from
Bangkok,
Thailand, and, in 2019, began operating out of
Manila,
Philippines. In October 2019, Binsky met
Zablon Simintov, who was thought to be the only remaining
Jew still living in
Afghanistan at the time, and featured him in a video that accumulated over 1 million views. His channel's three most viewed videos depict his encounters with
Wim Hof in
the Netherlands, the "tallest people in the world" in
South Sudan, and Thai Ngoc—a man who claims to have not slept since 1962—in
Vietnam. In 2020, Binsky announced an upcoming documentary on his travels called
Border 197. Binsky's goal was to travel to all 197 countries recognized by the
United Nations in the world by the end of 2020 and before his 30th birthday, In 2024, he released
Just Go, a book that documents his travel stories from visiting 197 countries. == Personal life ==