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[lastat06513]

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

......

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!....

[joe_doufu]

[billybrobby]

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.

[joelseymour]

.....

[Pyongshin Sangja]

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

[lastat06513]

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

[numazawa]

[endofthewor1d]

[paperbag princess]

are you afraid of ghosts?

[babtangee]

[dulouz]

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

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Are you weary or wary of ghosts? Or both?

[peony]

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

[rapier]

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.

[fiveeagles]

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