The coolest part of BiggerPockets is its ability to connect like-minded individuals who share a passion for real estate investing. While it's easy to join your local REIA to connect with those around you, what if you live 6,000 miles away from where you're investing?

That happens to be the case with me and several other BP members living out here in Korea. To help improve our networks, we've started our own meetup in Seoul and have grown it to over 300 members. Along the way, I've met several awesome investors from all over Korea and the rest of the world. 

This weekend I had the pleasure of hanging out with fellow BP member, @Matthew Schroeder who happened to be visiting Korea with his Korean wife.

Matthew's lived overseas for many years, so it was nice to connect with someone who shares a passion for travel and exploring new countries.

We were able to sit and have coffee at the 'car coffee shop' as I call it - a mixed used space that was developed by a Coffee shop, a car dealership and audio equipment manufacturer. Imagine a huge open layout coffeeshop with actual model cars placed around it that customers can sit in and check out. Our conversation ran the gamut of investing in Indianapolis, the 2008 crisis, where gold is headed, and international investing in Asia. It was both philosophical as well as practical.

(Me on the left, Matthew on the right)

We have one more meeting planned with more of the Seoul REI Meetup members on Monday at the Taste of Thailand in Kyungridan (by Itaewon).

Thanks BP for helping investors from all over the world connect, including international real estate investors out here in Korea.