In 2016, Stawski and Sazunic moved to Tokyo, Japan and produced a video series on Japanese food and culture titled Eatyoursushi.
Simon Stawski and Martina Sazunic met in 2005 during a poetry class at the University of Toronto, and both earned a bachelor's degree in Education and Art.
[4][6][7] Originally, the video blogs were made for their friends and family, but it later expanded to documenting "fun and quirky things" about Korea, and they later titled their channel Eatyourkimchi.
[6] In 2011, after quitting their jobs as teachers, Stawski and Sazunic became full-time bloggers living off the ad revenue from their YouTube videos and website.
[17][19] In November 2015, Stawski and Sazunic closed down Eatyourkimchi's studio to move to Kichijōji in Tokyo, Japan the following year, and they also announced they were no longer associated with You Are Here Cafe.
[17] In 2020, Stawski and Sazunic moved back to Canada, and on February 11, 2021, they announced on Instagram that they had divorced but will continue to post new content.
[30] Elysabeth Hahm from Yonhap News noted that Stawski and Sazunic allowed tourists to gain information from a local's perspective that was not present in guidebooks.