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Things your friends "forget" to tell you.
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lastat06513



Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:18 pm    Post subject: Things your friends "forget" to tell you. Reply with quote

Well folks!

I'm moving again, for the 4th time since I've lived in Korea. My lease is about to expire and the landlord is about to hike up the rent, so its time to go.
I started looking for an apartment in the same area as I live in now.
I asked the same friend who helped me the first time to help me again.

But he mentioned that when I moved into my current apartment, there was one "small" piece of info he "forgot" to tell me.

I was like.....what?.......

It seems that when I went to look at the apartment the first time, he noticed a small piece of paper hanging over the bedroom threshold written in red chinese letters.
It was to ward away bad luck and evil spirits (evidently, something very "bad" happened in that house).

I asked, why didn't you tell me the first time?
And he said, I didn't think much of it

...... Confused

The house is nice, big and clean...and cheap.
Now I know why


Koreans don't usually put those kind of things up unless something bad really DID happen. So, it would've been cool to know the history of the place before I moved in instead of finding out "the hard way"

go figure!....
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joe_doufu



Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Things your friends "forget" to tell you. Reply with quote

lastat06513 wrote:
It seems that when I went to look at the apartment the first time, he noticed a small piece of paper hanging over the bedroom threshold written in red chinese letters.
It was to ward away bad luck and evil spirits (evidently, something very "bad" happened in that house).


What was it? Count yourself lucky!
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billybrobby



Joined: 09 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

don't be a wus. it was probably just a horrible horrible murder comitted by a guy who got acquitted on a technicality and is still living right beside you. you pansy.
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joelseymour



Joined: 18 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:51 am    Post subject: ..... Reply with quote

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Pyongshin Sangja



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to live there. Don't worry, I ate the bodies.
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lastat06513



Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Luckily I registered my lease with the local ward office.....
and...
I DID find out something interesting.....

No one lived there for about 2 years prior to me moving in and....

The last tenant DID kill his wife there....

Nice to know this stuff now, you think.....

Advice; be weary of nice places with cheap rents

I'll be moving out the first chance I get
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numazawa



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lastat06513 wrote:

Advice; be weary of nice places with cheap rents


Sorry, I don't think I can be weary of one until I've lived there a while. Laughing
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endofthewor1d



Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lastat06513 wrote:
Luckily I registered my lease with the local ward office.....
and...
I DID find out something interesting.....

No one lived there for about 2 years prior to me moving in and....

The last tenant DID kill his wife there....

Nice to know this stuff now, you think.....

Advice; be weary of nice places with cheap rents

I'll be moving out the first chance I get



why would you move out? is the dead wife still there?

and why why why would you be wary of nice places with cheap rents??? your advice should be "seek out apartments where murders took place".
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paperbag princess



Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

are you afraid of ghosts?
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babtangee



Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

endofthewor1d wrote:


and why why why would you be wary of nice places with cheap rents??? your advice should be "seek out apartments where murders took place".


Indeed. What are you: 10?
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dulouz



Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Uranus

PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know about those signs. It means someone used to masturbate there.
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Pyongshin Sangja



Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you weary or wary of ghosts? Or both?
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peony



Joined: 30 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

not really there because something has already happened, a lot of families put those signs (bu-juk) up there to ward off something evil from entering- as a precaution or they are up there for good luck
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not many korean dwellings are old enough to have a "presence", thankfully.
Houses in somewhere like england or ireland, hundreds of years old, have a much higher strike rate.
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fiveeagles



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My friend lived in an apartment where someone killed themselves. It spirit was still in the apartment until we did a spiritual cleansing.

PM me if you want to know more.

Andrew
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