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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:10 am Post subject: How hot are you? |
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If this is the "rainy season" I'm not sure I want to see what the dry season looks like.
I've only used my new folding umbrella once.
I finally broke down and turned on my AC. I don't know what my electricity bill is going to look like, but it's worth every won. God bless Willis Haviland Carrier![/b] |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| You just turned your A/C on now? Mine has been on for 2 months. Also, this is the lamest rainy season since Christ was born. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:29 am Post subject: |
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| Just as I do not turn on the ondol in the winter, I have no air conditioner in my apartment for the summer. I would say that I'm the toughest guy on Dave's but I spend a lot of time in my ac'd office in the summer. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:59 am Post subject: |
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| Is it likely to continue to rain in August, do you think? |
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chasmmi
Joined: 16 Jun 2007
Location: Ulsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| Is it likely to continue to rain in August, do you think? |
Continue to rain?
I just laugh at the irony of any Brits who chose July to go home in order to avoid the rainy season of Korea. |
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Wondering
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| It's been quite rainy in my part of Seoul, but nearly always at night. Convenient, really. |
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:58 am Post subject: |
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| chasmmi wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
| Is it likely to continue to rain in August, do you think? |
Continue to rain?
I just laugh at the irony of any Brits who chose July to go home in order to avoid the rainy season of Korea. |
Why would a Brit go home in order to avoid the rainy season? I'm a Brit, and frankly I'd be very foolish to avoid the rainy season here by going to another rainy country. That said, last July in Daegu it rained hard practically every day. This summer, it's been fantastic. |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| I don't have AC in my apartment, but I've been okay so far. Last night was the only night that I felt really uncomfortable. So I just pointed the fan directly at my head about a foot away, and it wasn't terrible. Although I'm probably setting myself up for fan death. |
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SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a self-professed A/C junkie. I didn't have one last year, so this year I'm definitely making up for lost time. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:30 am Post subject: |
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| oneofthesarahs wrote: |
| I don't have AC in my apartment, but I've been okay so far. Last night was the only night that I felt really uncomfortable. So I just pointed the fan directly at my head about a foot away, and it wasn't terrible. Although I'm probably setting myself up for fan death. |
You've already got the disease. I give you two months, three max.
No AC here either. The one awesome thing about summer is the 5,000 gas bill.
I tried to skimp on my ondol last winter, but it didn't work so well. I like to be cool when I'm sleeping, but not an iceblock. Hard as hell to drag myself out of bed at 7 am when my apartment is 16 Celcius. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| Wondering wrote: |
| It's been quite rainy in my part of Seoul, but nearly always at night. Convenient, really. |
You haven't been here long, have you? Normally, there would be several dozen people dead from the floods in your town by now. |
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Wondering
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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Umm...actually, been here 9 years, but this is my first year in Seoul.
That said, I was talking about the rain THIS rainy season...not the past. I have no idea what it was like in Seoul in previous years since I wasn't in Seoul in previous years.
Perhaps there are fewer drownings in part because when it does rain, it rains at night when fewer people are out and about? And, yes, I know it has not been much of a rainy season, but it IS still raining quite often. 
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jessie-b
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| I thought it was going to be much worse. Last year I was in Pennsylvania working at a summer camp and it was ROASTING hot...no air conditioning either. Also all the roads in my town were washed out during the rainy season. I put the AC on when I come home at night, just for tweny minutes or so. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| jessie-b wrote: |
| I thought it was going to be much worse. Last year I was in Pennsylvania working at a summer camp and it was ROASTING hot...no air conditioning either. Also all the roads in my town were washed out during the rainy season. I put the AC on when I come home at night, just for tweny minutes or so. |
Hijack!
What camp did you work at? Where was it? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Wondering wrote: |
Umm...actually, been here 9 years, but this is my first year in Seoul.
That said, I was talking about the rain THIS rainy season...not the past. I have no idea what it was like in Seoul in previous years since I wasn't in Seoul in previous years.
Perhaps there are fewer drownings in part because when it does rain, it rains at night when fewer people are out and about? And, yes, I know it has not been much of a rainy season, but it IS still raining quite often. |
Don't watch the news much? At least you do know that thousands of people lost their homes in Kangnung in the last few years because of flooding during the rain season, right? Remember the campers who drowned in the flashflood...forget about that one...that was more than 9 years ago. |
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