|  | Tom Vater's story profiling 34-year-old Lena Bumiller-Klathale, a German national born in Hamburg who has traded her European past for a life on the ocean in Asia, was the most read story in the Life & Arts section this month. "I get a lot of motivation from the life I chose," Bumiller-Klathale told Vater. After studying social sciences in the Netherlands she traveled to Asia in 2011, where she met and then married Suriyan Klathale, a "sea nomad" better known as Hook, in 2018.
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 | Elsewhere on the Life & Arts desk, Marco Ferrarese explored the evolving world of Asian nightmare horror films -- from visionary Japanese productions such as Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo," to apocalyptic South Korean Netflix series "Hellbound" (2021) by Yeon Sang-ho, which became the world's most-watched television show on Netflix in a mere 24 hours -- while Sara Perria met some of the volunteer teachers who are defying new Taliban restrictions on education for women and girls in Afghanistan.
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