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VanIslander · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject:

Some pizza delivery drivers don't even knock, they just open the door.

After all, they are bringing you something you just ordered and want quickly (must be their thinking).

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djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

I think that's why a lot of younger married Koreans decide to live in secure high rises that take a password to go in the building, a key card to use the elevator, and another code + key to open the apartment door, which, by the way has a CCTV camera intercom for residents to ask who's at the door when someone rings the doorbell.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

articulate_ink · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:25 am Post subject:

I hate this. I've had a few close calls.

1. In Jeonju, where I spent one month at a camp, the maintenance guy barged into my apartment (I was staying in a one-room) a couple of times. The first time it happened, it was a late Saturday morning. I was still in bed and, in fact, had just had a Self-Pleasure Event. Five minutes earlier and he'd have seen a lot more of me than he wanted to see.

2. Here in Dumpjeom, the utility guys from my university almost barged in while I was sitting on the toilet. Since I live alone, I don't bother to shut the bathroom door while I'm in there. They pounded on the door and tried unlocking it. I shouted but probably not loud enough. Fortunately I'd finished taking care of business. A few more seconds and... I could have shut the bathroom door in time, but it's the principle of the thing. How do you ask, in Korean, if Korean people digest corn better than white people do?

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Scarlet13 · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Changwon

OneWayTraffic · Joined: 14 Mar 2005

Been here 6 years and never had a problem like this myself. Though I suspect that someone may have been into the first place I stayed in while my roommate and I were out. She was accusing me of going through her stuff. She was 20 years my senior and not exactly hot. Confused

Not good for workplace relations.

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

We have the main external door and an internal doorway. I was listening through my headphones loud as I do and had that strange feeling, looked around and there was a poor old woman standing at the doorway. I think she was there for a while calling out for my attention. She wanted cardboard. Poor old dear, 'Take the beer bottles,' I said, and helped her carry them down the stairs.
Can't understand it though, why people let themselves in. Damndest cultural habit I've ever known.

If some goon or perv off the street comes up and let's himself in, he'll get more than one of those Korean style slaps about the head.

Hey, any stories about hot chicks who purposely let themselves in to your pad? That would be okay.