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+package com.teamnexters.lazy.api.config;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.web.client.RestTemplateBuilder;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.http.client.BufferingClientHttpRequestFactory;
+import org.springframework.http.client.SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.time.Duration;
+
+@Configuration
+public class RestTemplateConfig {
+
+    @Bean
+    public RestTemplate restTemplate(RestTemplateBuilder restTemplateBuilder) {
+        return restTemplateBuilder
+                .requestFactory(() -> new BufferingClientHttpRequestFactory(new SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory()))
+                .setConnectTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(5000)) // connection-timeout
+                .setReadTimeout(Duration.ofMillis(5000)) // read-timeout
+                .additionalMessageConverters(new StringHttpMessageConverter(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
+                .build();
+    }
+}
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