Seoul Man Frank Ahrens plans Press Club Book Rap, Sept. 7

Ever wondered what it would be like to leave your job and your home country behind, and start over with a new career in a new culture?

For those only wanting to do this vicariously, Frank Ahrens has written a book about doing just this and plans to discuss it at a National Press Club Book Rap on Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5 for National Press Club members; $10 for the public. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit National Press Club Journalism Institute. Tickets can be purchased online by clicking here.

Books can be purchased online at the same time as tickets or at the event. No outside books or memorabilia are permitted.

The Book Rap includes an audience question-and-answer session and a book signing.

Ahrens was a perfectly happy single-guy journalist at the Washington Post, living his dream job and -- he thought -- his dream life. Then she walked in.

In 2010, after 18 years at the Post, Ahrens married Rebekah Davis, a newly-minted U.S. foreign-service officer on her way to a posting in South Korea. He left his career and country to become director of global public relations for Hyundai Motor in Seoul. He was promoted to vice president two years later, becoming the highest-ranking non-Korean at Hyundai headquarters -- and the only American.

Ahrens lived to write about the experience in his new book, "Seoul Man." He was born in West Virginia and is now back in the U.S. and a PR executive in Washington D.C. He and his family live in Northern Virginia, where traffic is light and leisurely compared to Seoul.