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[legalquestions]

Not at the university where I work, at least not in my office nor in the classrooms. But I have noticed that the Korean profs and teaching assistants offices have all had heat for the last several weeks.

Is this common here in Korea? Of course, it makes for some less than optimal learning/working conditions.

What about at your office/place of work? Heat or no heat?

[Canerican]

Working in a public school. The heat is on in the classrooms, generally speaking, but there's no heat anywhere besides said classrooms, and the windows are typically open, so the building gets /cold/ no matter where you are.

My co-teacher wears her winter jacket all day, and I've picked up a cozy oversized shawl from Itaewon for about 15K won. I keep it at the school to put on during classes.

[Draz]

Yes. I am grateful to not be wearing a winter jacket all day at work. I complained about a draft and they plugged that up too.

The kids whine about it being too hot all the time though.

[rhinosaur]

I would kill for a breath of cool fresh air....the roof is locked (construction) and windows are being closed as fast as I can open them... the heaters pumping a balmy 30 degrees into the classrooms and the hall...children are melting...STOP THE INSANITY

[southern boy]

At work yes, at home no.

I am living in a spacious 'office tel' sort of room. Where over around 80% of the occupants here uses it for office and work but not live. This building doesn't have an ondol heating system; it uses wall heaters but it's controled by the guards down on the first in their office.

It's been pretty chilly in the past week up until the presence, yet the main heating control hasn't yet turn on. Coming back home from work and in the mornings I had to put on lots of clothes. I went into the office and asked those guards why the heaters aren't on their replied was that the weather isn't that cold and it's not winter, yet at the same time 2 jumbo heaters in their office were in full blast. Brilliant!

I tempted to ask where what's the fucking purpose of me havng to pay 200,000 won a month for a so call "maintenance fee"

[Young FRANKenstein]

The classrooms were boiling yesterday until I shut off the heat and opened the windows (it was a beautiful day outside). I have complete heat control in my office, so it's not turned on yet.

[ajuma]

I've been wearing my coat in my PS. All the doors in the building are open, but no heat. I understand the students who wear their coats, wear fuzzy slippers and wrap a blanket around their legs.

[sojourner1]

There's heat in some classrooms coming out of a ceiling unit. Of all places to put a heater with the fact that heat rises instead of going down. I think it would be intended to have an AC in the ceiling, but Koreans got it wrong.

It's not very warm and I'm wearing my coat most of the time. Oh, it's not freezing cold yet. Wait another month and you'll wish for April to come ASAP as your extremities ache, you feel stiff like, and low energy from being so cold. It almost feels like camping when outside the apartment as schools and camp buildings are kinda primitive.

[Perceptioncheck]

^^ My schools have the same units in the ceiling. I don't know if they're meant to be AC-and-heater-in-one but they actually work pretty well.

In one of my classrooms, the kids had turned on the old gas burner and when I came in I almost choked because of the fumes. These kids are curiously resistant to change; WHY can't they use the heating unit that doesn't produce noxious fumes?

[esetters21]

My PS doesn't heat the hallways and leaves the windows open in the common areas. I control the heat in my room which also serves as my office thank goodness. Any time that I go into the main teachers room/office I feel like I am in a sauna. The one place that needs heating and doesn't have it is the bathroom .

[D.D.]

No heat in class or in the office. I have to wear a fleece jacket to class all of the time.

[justaguy]

[marlow]

No, but I got my own heater instead. School administration doesn't like them because they say they are a fire hazard, but I don't care. It's that, or they supply heat.

[Xuanzang]

No heat anywhere at my school. Principal is being cheap so it is a shivering journey in the washroom and hallways. They also LOVE to leave the windows open in the hallways from dusk til dawn. I have a space heater and blast that in my classroom. Suck that cheapskate principal.

[bogey666]