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[D.D.]

Its Saturday morning at 8 am and I have been up for an hour because they are building outside my place. Isn't there any noise restrictions here. What a joke I went out and yelled at them- what a waste of breath.

[Bibbitybop]

Wait until Sunday morning and see how the noise makes you feel.

[PeteJB]

You yelled at them? What else are they supposed to do, invent silent machinery in one morning? It's their job. Don't yell at them, yell at their boss if you must...

[D.D.]

I did yell at the boss and he spoke english.

[just because]

haha...good luck. You are banging your head against a brick wall on this one.

They have a deadline, I can assure you all the other koreans while annoyed are so used to it and the noise that accompanies this country they just live with it.

That makes you look like an idiot in their eyes. they won;t care what you say...business is business.

Best thing you can do is just get some ear plugs or adjust your sleeping patterns.

On the bright side Korean construct things very quickly so the pain should be over so enough.

[seoulsucker]

[BritishinSuwon]

[nautilus]

law is on your side, they aren't supposed to start until 8am.

[aka Dave]

I use a loud fan to drown out the noise. Of course it might kill me, but I'm willing to take that risk.

[JamesFord]

I hate that kind of stuff to.

But living in India for a year put it in perspective. There, the construction workers (if you can call them that) live/sleep under the building they are constructing with their family. They defecate on the street/road in front of the building. They work at whatever time they please. If they have energy at 2am, they get up and start up the power saw. If they want to hammer at 4am, they do it. If they want to work all night, anything goes. And they can't understand/don't care if someone has a problem with it.

I get woken up at 7am every weekend due to the neighbors kids upstairs and the terribly constructed buildings in Korea. I hate it, but not much I can do until I leave this place.

Nobody gives a crap because we are 'sensitive' foreigners.

[mithridates]

Earplugs cost 1000 won and will save your sanity.

[moosehead]

yeah, they start around here at 6:30 - sometimes even earlier - holidays even - no respect...

[cangel]

I started a thread on this very topic over a year ago. They were doing construction all around my villa starting as early as 4:30AM, 7 days a week. Un-freakin-believable. Complaining got me absolutely zip. I even, eventually, contacted city hall, as they had sent out some welcome material in English when I first moved to Jeonju, and had stated that if I needed help, please contact them... Well, basically noise laws are on the books but, like everything in this country, nobody enforces the law(s). I even went to the police box near my house and complained and they laughed. LAUGHED!! To my face!!Earplugs don't do sh!t when they are dropping steel scaffolding from 4 stories, 15 feet from your window. Luckily, after a year of this, my uni movied me into uni housing.

[D.D.]

Today it started at 6:00 am. I just went out and watched them with an evil look while I smoked a cig. That will teach them.

[Lekker]

Get used to it. You don't have the right to silence here.