The video accumulated over 10 million views. In May 2017, he uploaded a video of an organized trip to North Korea on his YouTube and Facebook channels.
In 2017, his girlfriend, Deanna Sallao, bought him a camera, which prompted him to create and begin posting videos on his YouTube channel (also called 'Drew Binsky'). He also started a blog called 'The Hungry Partier' (later renamed 'Drew Binsky') and began documenting his travels on Instagram and Snapchat. By October 2015, he had visited a total of 73 countries. He quit his teaching job in January 2015 and began focusing on traveling full-time after that. He spent 18 months there, and traveled to 20 countries in Asia during that time.
Career Īfter college, Binsky took a job teaching English in Seoul, South Korea. He studied there for 1 semester, and traveled to more than 20 countries across Europe, at which time he decided he would make a living out of traveling. During his junior year in college, he entered into a study abroad program in Prague, Czech Republic. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, graduating in 2013 with degrees in economics and entrepreneurship. His first ever trip overseas was to Israel in 2009. 'Binsky' was a nickname given to him by his family, of Jewish German origin.
Binsky was born Drew Goldberg in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona.
