Life in Korea Apartment Guide (Washing Machine, Boiler, etc.)

Below are a couple of stickies with information and FAQs on these frequent topics:

* Boiler / Heater (Gas) Control 101 - figuring out how to use your Korean heat controls.

* Washing Machine guide - Helping you figure out the buttons and settings on your Korean washing machine.

Here's a Kiturami Thermostat Guide I made that people might find helpful...


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tGxdFUKLxT3EmsGh7mL0NLySRovETuu_L6KUU7B-1rw/edit?usp=sharing

Pay it forward.

Got one for a Rice Cooker? hahaha, even my coteacher cant figure it out (to translate for me)

This article may help when you have problems with your landlord.
http://www.wiggleenglish.com/ourblog/get-rid-of-your-landlord-problems-using-the-mail-strike-technique/

According to Kiturami, Korea has five seasons ;) Thanks globalgourmand

Dehumidifer - scroll down to "Trap the Damp"
http://blog.korea.net/?p=4009

You will find these in all the small to large stores. Koreans also like to use charcoal. Cheap option to dealing with humidity. Place these in the closet and around the apartment. You'll go through a lot quickly during the summer months.

Mold

Avoid ground level apartments and try to get something on the 3rd or 4th floors. The location of some of these apartments are such that a lot of serious mold can grow on all your furniture, luggage, and walls. Some apartments are going to be fine, but there are cases of ground level apartments not being built right.

Black mold is dangerous as it can affect your nervous system. One teacher had a large streak of black mold next to his bed on the wall. His room always stunk because of the mold. Multiple rooms on that ground floor had issues. This was reported to the co-teachers at the public schools. The schools checked out the apartments and confirmed that the teachers had to be relocated into a different apartment building.

Mold can be a big issues in many of the older places. Ask those who help you with your housing questions about the mold situation before moving in.

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I can't believe i haven't posted here given my 20-year, 7-apt history here with "push this button, not that".

Simply get someone to show you once.... and you can rock that for decades. I have.

Which buttons do i push? Then push them. Just don't forget.

.... and you can rock that for decades. I have.

Another no-sensical post ending to a very strange post. On the drink are again?????

Just an inquiry? You using 'rock that' as a verb...Yes? So, what you are saying is you can throw large stones at some thing for a long time...Yes? Why would you want to throw large stones at elevator buttons?

Another no-sensical post ending to a very strange post. On the drink are again?????

Just an inquiry? You using 'rock that' as a verb...Yes? So, what you are saying is you can throw large stones at some thing for a long time...Yes? Why would you want to throw large stones at elevator buttons?

You can rock a haircut, you can rock a clothing style...

I have rocked the same three-button procedure on every washing machine (all six of them) i have had in two decades here. Easy peasy. Bing bang boom.

Jethro is from a part of the English-speaking world that doesn't get the expression. Or he is purposely being obtuse.

Yet he rocks sunglasses?

Young people used to say "I rocked up (to somewhere)'back in the 80s. Haven't heard it constantly used any other way except by you. If you use it often, then it must be a common term used by older people from Vancouver Island, maybe also valley people in the depths of the Papua New Guinean jungle. But what do I know?

And yes, I was being deliberately obtuse.

Still a bizarre post though, even if I was being a smart-arse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1Nae_EBvQ&ab_channel=DEFLEPPARD

You can rock a haircut, you can rock a clothing style...

I have rocked the same three-button procedure on every washing machine (all six of them) i have had in two decades here. Easy peasy. Bing bang boom.

Jethro is from a part of the English-speaking world that doesn't get the expression. Or he is purposely being obtuse.

Yet he rocks sunglasses?

I am familiar with the expression, but isn't it just used facetiously?  As in "Hey Vanislander, you're really rocking that three piece suit at your hagwon job." 

Also, you would never use it when describing something mundane like activating a washing machine or a thermostat.  It means do something with some flair or strutting.  Who knows what Van means when he's using it?

1. I have never had a 3-piece suit (but have thought about it once in the 1990s; i never teach in jeans & t-shirt, even on casual Fridays).

2. Your nuanced critique is taken. I could legit have said i rocked the 3-button procudure when i first arrived in 2002 ("bing, bang, boom" - that's what i say), but after 20 years the expression shouldn't land.

3. Have you ever spoken to me? You speak to the crowd. Win the crowd! ... I guess politicians are born not just made. Huh.

1. I have never had a 3-piece suit.

You've never owned a suit? Ever?