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Viaje
Joined: 03 Feb 2009
Location: Indebted, USA
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 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject: Cleaning and ironing clothes? |
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| If you need to be presentable for work, how do you take care of your clothes? The apartments provided sound bare, a washing machine but no dryer, do you buy an iron and iron your clothes? Do you dry clean? Also, since you're only on a year contract and my leave or change locations, how much in clothing do you live with? It doesn't seem practical to have a lot of clothes, like what most of us are used to having in the closet at home. I'm a guy so I'm interested in comments from guys as to how much clothing you have and how you maintain it and show up to work presentable? |
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Forward Observer
Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Location: FOB Gloria
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Wash, hang dry and then iron at home. Suits, cuffed shirts, cashmere, wool - dry cleaners. |
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Goku
Joined: 10 Dec 2008
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Rumor has it they are in homeplus... and cheap like 1,500 for pants...
I'm going today to find out, I'll update you if there's any luck. |
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Pwillig
Joined: 26 Jan 2009
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| I'm lucky. I can wear jeans and such... |
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sarbonn
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan
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I came here with just enough clothing I could carry, and then slowly I've had clothes send over from the states. I'm glad I did because I was getting tired of wearing the same clothes over and over again. Personally, if I had not brought a lot of clothes here, I would have started buying it, and then when I left, I'd probaby just dispose of most of it to avoid having to carry this stuff around the planet again.
I have yet to see a dry cleaner close to where I live, but I'm sure they're here somewhere. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: Cleaning and ironing clothes? |
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| Viaje wrote: |
| If you need to be presentable for work, how do you take care of your clothes? The apartments provided sound bare, a washing machine but no dryer, do you buy an iron and iron your clothes? Do you dry clean? Also, since you're only on a year contract and my leave or change locations, how much in clothing do you live with? It doesn't seem practical to have a lot of clothes, like what most of us are used to having in the closet at home. I'm a guy so I'm interested in comments from guys as to how much clothing you have and how you maintain it and show up to work presentable? |
this is one of my BIGGEST issues re my life in Korea.
1) far as I'm concerned the washing machines here suck, especially with anything that's gotten fairly dirty (like white socks, for e.g.) and the Korean "bleach" I bought, that sucks too.
2) you have to air dry your clothes, which in my instance is in a tiny quasi indoor like balcony - it takes a long time for things to dry (especially now in the winter, it takes forever and ever) AND upon drying, everything looks ridiculously stiff and starchy. Perhaps it's the lack of a wind, but even when aidrying clothes on a clothesline back in the US it was never even remotely this bad.
so you're forced to iron everything and iron the shit out of it. I'm not a good ironer and I hate to iron. If the priced at the local laundrymat/dry cleaners weren't so preposterous (matching the preposterous prices for almost anything in Korea, outside of a PC Bang) . I'd give my clothes to them.
as it is - the things I have to wash with the biggest regularity, socks and underwear, I don't have to worry about ironing them.
shirt and pants I only wear at school, so I only have to wash them say every other week, and if you rotate collared shirts for e.g. , you can wear them several times before having to wash them.
I probably look wrinkled half the time, but I really don't care. It's not my fault everything I hang to dry looks like an effing prune when dried and ready.
(btw an iron is provided to you if you work for Gepik in your contract)
this was NEVER an issue to such an extent back in the US - in fact it was a non issue, from washing clothes to drying them alike - like I said - one of my biggest issues with life in Korea.
re - how much/many clothes to bring/have?
that depends on you - I actually brought a LOT - because I didn't want to be forced to buy anything here (won't fit and I'll hate the style) and I wanted flexibility in what I could wear.
since I have volume, my washings are less frequent than if you only bring a small amount (in which case, learn to start ironing now) |
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Viaje
Joined: 03 Feb 2009
Location: Indebted, USA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| a PC bang, now that sounds interesting, ...can I ask what that is? by the way I do hate the thought of ironing everyday, here a lot of shirts come out fne from the dryer and hardly need ironing or just a quick touchup. |
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Try to buy as many wrinkle free shirts as possible. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| This is also one of my biggest hassles in Korea also. I'm looking into gettin stuff washed and ironed, for me. I got some pants taken up the other day and it cost 2500won which is incredibly good value in my opinion. This was at a little mom 'n pop place near me. |
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fighton
Joined: 27 Jan 2009
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| Viaje wrote: |
| a PC bang, now that sounds interesting, ...can I ask what that is? by the way I do hate the thought of ironing everyday, here a lot of shirts come out fne from the dryer and hardly need ironing or just a quick touchup. |
PC bangs are internet cafes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_bang |
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awesome.ahsah!
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:06 am Post subject: Don't use a space heater to hasten your clothes drying... |
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| I did that for a month one winter and ended up paying an unbelievable power bill--about $800 for the month! |
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chevro1et
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Yea, the cleaners is the best bet for hassle-free washing and pressing of collared shirts. The one across from my apt does them for 2000won each, or if I take a few, I get a discounted rate. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Goku wrote: |
| Forward Observer wrote: |
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Rumor has it they are in homeplus... and cheap like 1,500 for pants...
I'm going today to find out, I'll update you if there's any luck. |
Rumour is right.
In fact, there should be a, or several, dry cleaners in your neighbourhood. |
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losing_touch
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Location: Ulsan - I think!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| Pwillig wrote: |
| I'm lucky. I can wear jeans and such... |
Well, I wear jeans to work. They still need to be ironed. The laundry drying facilities are abysmal. Even T-Shirts come out looking like crap. They get ironed too. |
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