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kudabra
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject: Roaches in Korea... |
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| How bad is the c0ckroach problem? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Bah-ki-ba-lay !
I saw exactly four of them in the last five years here: one at my last job (just over a Chinese restaurant), one at my last apartment (just outside of it, in the stairwell), and two at a restaurant I have never returned to.
That's it.
But I don't live in one of the big cities. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: Roaches in Korea... |
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| How bad is the c0ckroach problem? |
It can go from non-existant to really problematic. |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Haven't seen any co ckroaches, but I've seen a mouse (rat?) or two down by some of the outdoor fish markets, which really isn't surprising. |
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kudabra
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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where are you lucky people working? And what type of housing are you getting?
I prefer to get an apt where it's non existent of course. I got enough friends that are already asking for freebies... hehehe |
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awalk2remember
Joined: 29 Dec 2006
Location: Pusan
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A teacher I knew in Daegu had an old shoebox apartment that was riddled with them ... they were relatively small, but numerous
Myself, when I was in Taejeon, had the odd one .... and they freaked the begeezers out of me ... it was like they were wearing army boots and would march across my floor on occasion ...
I think I bought every roach killer I could find ...
Totally disgusting !!! |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: Re: Roaches in Korea... |
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| kudabra wrote: |
| How bad is the c0ckroach problem? |
I live around the corner from Cheongdam Station in Samsung-dong and encounter at least ten per day in this outrageously-priced apartment. The place is cleaned every other day yet the critters will not go away - bahstuds that they are... |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| awalk2remember wrote: |
A teacher I knew in Daegu had an old shoebox apartment that was riddled with them ... they were relatively small, but numerous
Myself, when I was in Taejeon, had the odd one .... and they freaked the begeezers out of me ... it was like they were wearing army boots and would march across my floor on occasion ...
I think I bought every roach killer I could find ...
Totally disgusting !!! |
Ditto - all the way down to the size of the little buggers. Heck, they are even crawling around the bathroom and the house is only three years old! |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| I've lived in two places in Korea that were severly infested. One was in Suji, my very first apartment in Korea. Not the welcome I was dreaming of. I wish they were more like the commercials where they would hide when I came home and turned the lights on, instead I would see them fall off of ledges when I was watching tv, scurry across the floor, end up in my water cup by my bed and everything else that was disgusting. One night alone when I finally got to killing them, I killed about 100 as they led a full scale assault on my place. As soon as the spraying started out they came from everywhere running across my ceiling, on the walls, out of the floor creases. An awful experience. Same thing happened in an apartment I lived at in Yongin, and again, killed about 100 in one assault. When I woke up one night as a roach ran across my head, that was the last straw. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Merlyn wrote: |
| I've lived in two places in Korea that were severly infested. One was in Suji, my very first apartment in Korea. Not the welcome I was dreaming of. I wish they were more like the commercials where they would hide when I came home and turned the lights on, instead I would see them fall off of ledges when I was watching tv, scurry across the floor, end up in my water cup by my bed and everything else that was disgusting. One night alone when I finally got to killing them, I killed about 100 as they led a full scale assault on my place. As soon as the spraying started out they came from everywhere running across my ceiling, on the walls, out of the floor creases. An awful experience. Same thing happened in an apartment I lived at in Yongin, and again, killed about 100 in one assault. When I woke up one night as a roach ran across my head, that was the last straw. |
What an amazing tale of bravery and diligence.
One of the larger ones I've seen in Korea did a little dance on my head a few weeks ago. That really blew. |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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| One of the larger ones I've seen in Korea did a little dance on my head a few weeks ago. That really blew. |
Speaking of larger ones, the funniest one I've seen was in the place in Suji. Funny that when I started spraying he tried to get out like the other ones from behind the sink area through the crack separating the sink area from the back wall. Unfortunately for him he was too fat, only his head could fit and his one and a half inch long antennas. He died like that, and to this day I think he still remains entombed. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:16 am Post subject: |
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| 5 years, never seen one in my home. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| One of the larger ones I've seen in Korea did a little dance on my head a few weeks ago. That really blew. |
Speaking of larger ones, the funniest one I've seen was in the place in Suji. Funny that when I started spraying he tried to get out like the other ones from behind the sink area through the crack separating the sink area from the back wall. Unfortunately for him he was too fat, only his head could fit and his one and a half inch long antennas. He died like that, and to this day I think he still remains entombed. |
Poor bugger... |
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Homer
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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My first appartment here was a roach colony.... 
Since then I have not seen many. In the summer you sometimes see the panzer roaches however... ..those are big roaches... |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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Go to the pharmacy and buy some Boric acid. You'll get a cube of stuff. Crush it up into power and mix it with water. So take this watery stuff and get a spoon and draw little lines where you think the roaches will go.
It will dry. Roaches will walk across it and it will stick to it's feet. When the roach grooms itself (sorta like a fly does) it will inject this lovely persistan chemical. Roach dies. The bonus is one of it's buddies will eat him and dies from the acid. Keep applying every few days and in a month or two you'll have no bugs. |
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