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Walter Mitty
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
Location: Tokyo! ^.^
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 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:02 am Post subject: Buying sheets in Korea. |
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It's often said that sheets should be brought here, not bought here, but I'm in a position where I need to pick some up. (New apt. has blankets but no sheets. I went to Carrefour yesterday to check things out, but want to clear a few things up before I plunk down my money.
The sets I saw had 3 pieces, (in Korean) ibul cover, mattress cover, and begae cover. Easy enough to figure out - quilt (or blanket) cover (top sheet), fitted sheet and pillowcase. The sizes are what threw me. The set I was looking at had the sizes marked as (in cm) 100x200, 160x210 and 40x60, respectively.
My mattress is 100x200 and my blankets are larger. (The pillow is not an issue.) What sense does it make to have a blanket cover smaller than the fitted sheet? It wouldn't be big enough to cover the whole mattress. I double-checked it to make sure I was reading it right, and I was. Was it just marked wrong, or am I missing something here? Is there some Korean "sheet logic" I'm unaware of? |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| Your best bet would probably be to buy some fabric and take it to a tailor to have him or her make sheets for you. Get a Korean friend to help you out. Maybe if you go into Seoul's Wal-Mart or some other department store, you'd find yourself lucky, but the going the tailor route is the best bet. |
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rachel phillips
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| I bought enough inexpensive extra-wide cotton muslin to make two complete sets of sheets and pillowcases at Dongdaemun Market. They were a bit scratchy at first bit now they're nice and soft. I paid about 60,000 won altogether. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Buying sheets in Korea. |
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| Walter Mitty wrote: |
The sets I saw had 3 pieces, (in Korean) ibul cover, mattress cover, and begae cover. Easy enough to figure out - quilt (or blanket) cover (top sheet), fitted sheet and pillowcase. The sizes are what threw me. The set I was looking at had the sizes marked as (in cm) 100x200, 160x210 and 40x60, respectively.
My mattress is 100x200 and my blankets are larger. (The pillow is not an issue.) What sense does it make to have a blanket cover smaller than the fitted sheet? It wouldn't be big enough to cover the whole mattress. I double-checked it to make sure I was reading it right, and I was. Was it just marked wrong, or am I missing something here? Is there some Korean "sheet logic" I'm unaware of? |
I don't know the Korean names for all the bedding, so I'm not sure which pieces you are taking about. But I have had a pretty mattress cover, like a dust ruffle, goes down to the floor. Then on top of that you might put a cheap cotton or expensive linen matress cover, which is much smaller, it just covers the top of the bed. Then on top of that, a pretty quilt or comforter-like piece that matches the first mattress cover. There is no "top sheet."
Or maybe I've been sleeping wrong all along... |
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Chonbuk
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 2:19 am Post subject: |
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You can get real (like back home) sheets at Costco. Emart has them too, they also have duvets- emart is cheaper ...
Nothing better than a duvet-
ohh yeah they also come in double or queen...
good luck
chonbuk |
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helly
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: WORLDWIDE
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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What's a duvet?
someone else already posted my reply but I'll confirm, get the fabric, measure your bed and have them tailored. The are a bunch of fabric and tailor shops for household goods in the Kangnam Express Bus Terminal (not the underground shopping mall, in the actual old smelly building) |
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mo
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Location: A place where messageboards aren't life.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Could someone tell me where Costco or Emart are, as my director kindly supplied me with single bed sheets for a double bed. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| A duvet is a big, fluffy comforter-type blanket, I think it has to be down-filled to qualify. They're heavy and impossible to wash or keep clean but they're really nice for all that. |
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Walter Mitty
Joined: 27 Mar 2003
Location: Tokyo! ^.^
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| Chonbuk wrote: |
You can get real (like back home) sheets at Costco. Emart has them too....
good luck
chonbuk |
I have solved the "mystery" of Korean linens.
I went out to the Emart in Ansan today, but what they had didn't look right and was quite pricey. I passed on what they had and hit Carrefour on the way home. I bought the set I mentioned above. ("The sets I saw had 3 pieces, (in Korean) ibul cover, mattress cover, and begae cover. Easy enough to figure out - quilt (or blanket) cover (top sheet), fitted sheet and pillowcase.") It was 35,000, which I thought was reasonable (by Korean prices, given the 60,000 figure for the custom sets mentioned by Rachel).
The "ibul cover" isn't a top sheet though. It's a blanket cover. Rather like a big pillowcase for a blanket. The sizes on the package were marked wrong, too, which is was got me confused in the first place. The fitted sheet was the smaller piece and the blanket cover the larger.
I have a Costco card, but didn't feel like making the trek there. I'm happy with what I got at Carrefour.
Mo, Costco has 5 locations in Korea - Daegu, Daejeon, Sangbong, Yangjae, Yangpyung - and the last 3 are all in the Metro Seoul area. You can get maps and directions (in English) at the Costco website.
http://www.costco.com/Info/CostcoNews/Locations/Locations.asp?log= |
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