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[princess]

Korea is great, but here is another testament to the fact that the world's best architects certainly aren't from Korea. Why oh why do they make apartments and villas with concrete walls? My Mom told me my aunt and uncle used to live ina ouse made of concrete. The walls would sweat and they had to constantly wipe them down, and that's why they ended uo moving into another house. In Korea, I can't understand why they make apts. with concrete walls, and more importantly, why do they wallpaper them??? This is the reason so many places have mold coming in on the walls. The concrete produces moisture/sweat, and then it comes through the wallpaper, and voila, what do you have??? That's right...MOLD...that's M-O-L-D...MOLD!!! Not too architecturally bright, huh???

[pdxsteve]

[faster]

Compared to the hollow driwall in Japan, I prefer the solid acoustic barrier of concrete. The key is to move to new buildings before the sweat and mold show up.

[jeffkim1972]

Korea is the largest producer of concrete in the world.. they need to find as many places to put it as possible..

[Wangja]

[aldershot]

Man you got to do your (la la-la!) best. wo-ooh, yeah.
No chains around my feet,
But Im not free, oh-ooh!
I know I am bound here in captivity;
Gyeah, now - (never, never) Ive never known happiness;
(never, never) Ive never known what sweet caress is -
Still, Ill be always laughing like a clown;
Wont someone help me? cause I (sweet life) -
Ive got to pick myself from off the ground
(must be somewhere for me), he-yeah! -
In this a...

[jeffkim1972]

[Wangja]

[jeffkim1972]

[Wangja]

[RACETRAITOR]

This is one of those complaints that confuses me. Back in Canada I lived in a concrete apartment building. It was strong, well built, and I couldn't hear my neighbours unless they were having really loud sex.

[jeffkim1972]

Ok, you're using statistics from 1989, while i am using stats from 2003 and 2004. Why are you using information that is nearly 18 years old?

Who is more confused?

and per capita means divide by the population. Korea is #1 then. Cement or concrete.

Obviously you didn't understand anything about the Three Gourges Dam example.

ME people hardly work, they import their labor, and most of them are on a one year visa and must go back and cannot live together with the citizens.

Please provide proof that subcontractors must make all the concrete/cement locally in the ME.

You also left out other uses of concrete, which are dry docks for shipyards. You can do the math, find out the square meterage of area for the shipyard, as well as the drydock space, it all must be covered in concrete.

Also, anytime you build a factory, you must lay down concrete. Korea is still a major manufacturing nation.

[Qinella]

Who the hell cares which country produces more concrete or cement? What a pointless argument.


Likewise, who the hell cares whether Korean construction firms use steel or concrete? Each material has its own advantages and disadvantages. I'm guessing Mr. Kim at Samsung Construction knows more about engineering than Princess.

[Wangja]