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[normalcyispasse]

NOISE.

God, the noise.

It never stops, even in this small city. All day, noise. Children, on average, each produce an amount of noise equivalent to a freight train. Being around children in groups is often like trying to sleep inside a speaker box at a Def Leppard concert.

I deal with noise all day at work. Always, always there are children screaming and beating each other and even more clamoring for my attention.

I come home and want nothing more than to close all my windows and doors and relax in peace and quiet, speaking to nobody and having nobody speak to me. I want no auditory distractions, just simple quiet.

I come home and I shut all my windows and doors.

And the tire store across the street has hired a couple fvcking doumi girls who are compelled to crank crappy house music up to 11. Even on the 7th floor with every windowpane and door sealed tightly I can't get away from NOISE.

SHUT.
THE.
FVCK.
UP.

Gahh, jesus t!ts, it just doesn't stop! Korea throbbing. March cannot come soon enough.

[xtchr]

Yup, I hear you, (just) over the annoying din that is Korea at all times and places.
Roll on August.

[TheChickenLover]

You may need to pay some of your own money for an apartment high enough to be absolutely silent during the day & night. I bought one on the 14th floor & never regretted it once. At night...silence, daytime ..again silence (with the windows closed).

It's heaven



Chicken

[RACETRAITOR]

I tune it out. It's no more annoying than the wind or waves washing up on the beach to me.

[Justin Hale]

It's the main reason I absolutely cannot wait to leave. If Seoulwas quieter, I'd want to leave less. I've enjoyed Korea (mainly), but I can't understand why the noise never got to me as much in my first two years. I've definitely developed a psychotic aversion to noise pollution and it's a fairly recent acquisition.

Last night, 3am, I was woken up, as I often am, by a series of very loud thuds from upstairs. It sounds exactly like someone dropping a huge boulder on a hollow floor. I lost it. I got dressed, went upstairs, and with my big boots on, kicked their (wooden) door 5 or 6 times with my huge size 12 soles. It was so loud it was probably heard all over the 16 storey building. I hope it terrified them. Any more thuds at 3am or elephant footsteps and I will terrorize them. I've tried leaving polite notes (in Korean) with only limited success. The time for politeness and reasonableness has passed and the time for terror has arrived. Basically, they are living above a psycho, a monster - that's my tactic now. Frankly, I'm gonna try and get rid of them.

If you have any suggestions (ghastly, heinous ones prefered) do pass them on.

[normalcyispasse]

[rationality]

[cdninkorea]

I have a friend who had very noisy neighbors. What did he do? You're gonna love this:

Using a very sharp knife (xacto? sp?) he filed down the cone shaped cap of a bottle of very strong glue, so an already small tip was almost as small as a pin. He then went to the apartment where the offending party was, shoved the glue bottle in the deadbolt keyhole and squeezed the contents of the whole tube inside.
Next day the door was off its hinges and the lock being replaced.

Also consider leaving a note saying that other bad things will happen to them if they keep up the noise.

[normalcyispasse]

Oh, if you're willing to spend some money, noise-canceling headphones can be a godsend.

[shaunew]

A dead hooker with a crack pipe in her ass, in their doorway always gets the message across to shot the hell up.

[JamesFord]

I have alot of trouble with noise in Korea. I'm in India now, and went back to Korea for a couple weeks at Christmas. It felt like a morgue compared to India. I got the first rest I've had in months.

So be thankful you are not in a country like India, where there is 100X more noise 24 hours a day along with people that can't possibly understand that noise affects anyone. At least apartments in Korea are sealed with windows.

[chadrory]

A number of years ago I had a downstairs neighbor that would have sex with her boyfriend at about 1am or so. IT WAS LOUD. She would make all the noise for about a half hour, then at the end he would make some grunting noise, job done.

I was going to make sure that I planned ahead for the next time. So I bought a cheap loudspeaker at Goodwill (second hand store), worked an eye bolt into the top, wired it for sound and waited.

Two nights later, sure enough, on came the aural assault of their passion and swoosh went the opening of my bedroom window. I gingerly lowered the loudspeaker, and as soon as it was at the optimum height, I pressed play. LOUD GERMAN POLKA MUSIC!!! They were pissed! They started banging on the wall, etc. I pressed the off button and proceeded to tell them (by this time, neighbors are turning their lights on and listening in) that enough is enough. If you want to fvck like animals, go somewhere else. After this statement, I heard people from other windows yelling out, "Yeah! Right on. You tell 'em." It was the best, most sweetest revenge I have ever had. Needless to say, they never did it again and moved out a month later.

[SuperFly]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I hear ya! In the summer the sound of crickets chirping is almost enough to drive me up the wall. Sometimes I can't get to sleep till 11. Winter isn't so bad. If my refrigerator motor didn't come on from time to time, I don't know what I'd do for sound effects.

[simpleminds]

Ah, yes, the land of the allatime noise. This is a most entertaining thread.

I also had a girl creating a ruckus whenever she had sex; we had a yelling fit one night when I interrupted their session. All the building knew, but she had no shame. Someone even called the cops. It made no difference.

Where I live now, it's so quiet I'm in another country. Just the stupid hawker truck at 7am every Mon, Wed, and Friday, which only lasts 2 minutes at the most. Those things should be shoved into a black hole.