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chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

I recently enjoyed sleeping on some memory foam... it was in a word... awesome. Now, I want to get some for my own sleeping arrangement. Does anyone know where one might be say a king-sized slab of the stuff? And, roughly how much said piece would cost?

Join Me · Joined: 14 Jan 2008

Professor,

They sell "said" material at E-Mart.

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

Thanks. I'm not much of a shopper these days. Embarassed

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

I went to Emart and Homeplus. They only had memory foam pillows. What I'm looking for is a king or queen size mattress top I could fold in half.

SydCShell · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Location: Maryland

Just keep looking everywhere. I know different stores have different things. Even different HomePluses have a slightly different inventory and it is always changing (like Walmarts back home). Personally, I found mine at a HomeEver, but that was months ago.

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject:

When I was back in Canada this summer a family friend mentioned in conversation how wonderful her memory foam mattress is and that if one was going to buy new, one HAD to buy a memory foam.

Then last week I returned to teach in a small town in Korea and decided to buy myself a new bed. The small local furniture store had two kinds of mattress, one of which is "memory". I wondered if it was memory foam and asked to look at it and indeed it was, approved according to the sticker by the american chiropractic association. It was a hundred thousand more than the spring type and i probably would have passed on it (it looks more like a cheap futon mattress!) but i remembered what the family friend said. I bought it and...

Memory foam is wonderful. Very Happy

I've had several straight great nights of sleep, 8-11 hours a night as I get over jet lag and adjust to the time zone. And no bed sores, no achy muscles, nothing but great sleep and a body without discomfort. A-ma-zing.

chaz47 · Joined: 11 Sep 2003

mmarshalynne · Joined: 23 May 2008

Since I arrived, I've been looking for a memory foam topper. In the U.S. I could get a nice one for $100. I would guess that one will cost $100-200 here. I've tried Costco, Home Plus and E-mart all to no avail. I would love to find memory foam here, but I don't live in Seoul so I need a place to buy it that would not be difficult to find.

Gnawbert · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Location: The Internet

We looked at e-mart, costco, Shinsagae and a couple of other home living type places here in Bundang. The cheapest we found was a queen was for over 500,000 won. Way WAY too expensive and over priced.

Our director found a queen sized foam cover about 2 inches thick for 150,000 won and it included free delivery. I'll try to find out the site he used, but the foam mattress was made by some american company and has served me very well for the last month.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:37 am Post subject:

I dunno about this topper thing you guys talk about. I bought a whole mattress labelled memory foam. Of course, there could be two parts to it, I didn't unzip it to look. It was 450,000 won for the whole thick mattress, produced all together, not as some sort of thin mat to put on a mattress.

And it is soooo worth it.

seoul101 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: Seoul

Just out of curiosity, why would you be worried about it being flammable/toxic when burnt?

Chances are, if you're matress is on fire and you didn't notice (wake up) up to that point, your house would be in flames anyway... ?

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: