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gingerjuju1986
Joined: 15 Sep 2009
Location: Jinju, South Korea
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 Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject: apartments - is it normal.. |
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| ..not to get any light in at all because your only window is literally one metre away from another building? Or is this just a lack of Korean planning permission laws? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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If it ever was a law to build a certain distance away from the next building, then it has been made a joke of. Likely a mix of greedy developer, corrupt planning dept and whatever other backhanders go on in the construction industry here.
Anyway, I've seen whole rows of 5 floor buildings built just one metre from the each other. The potential fire hazard isn't worth thinking about. |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| It's not normal, but your school isn't exactly paying for prime real estate. |
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t1m1ty
Joined: 24 May 2009
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| That's what my old place was like. I told my school to move me because I felt like I was in prison in that old officetel. Now I'm in a MUCH cleaner, brighter, safer officetel that overlooks the city with nice big windows. |
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gingerjuju1986
Joined: 15 Sep 2009
Location: Jinju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| t1m1ty wrote: |
| That's what my old place was like. I told my school to move me because I felt like I was in prison in that old officetel. Now I'm in a MUCH cleaner, brighter, safer officetel that overlooks the city with nice big windows. |
Really? is that a valid reason to get them to move you? I looked over my contract ( public school) and it doesn't say anything about "being able to see out of the window" in employer appartment provisions. Plus I think that the guy before there stayed in that appartment for the whole year. And the appartment itself is fine,it's just like being in a very nice prison cell... |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| An advantage to this is getting out more. |
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proustme
Joined: 13 Jun 2009
Location: Nowon-gu
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| Gowishons are a nightmare, though. |
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roadballmint
Joined: 09 Jan 2009
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| ..not to get any light in at all because your only window is literally one metre away from another building? |
hehe, I live in one of those. My light has to be on all the time or it's too dark. I can't even imagine what it's done to my electricity bill. It sucks but, come on, what do you expect for free? 
Look at it this way, it could be worse- you could be on here complaining about infestation, or gas leaks, or no hot water.
Actually, my building is designed in such a way that no room gets any direct sunlight. Except maybe the top floor... Yeah, amount of direct sunlight does not appear to be a top priority for construction companies building officetels or school directors choosing accommodation for their foreign teachers. |
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nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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You could live in my place, with the kindergarten right outside, so any day off, I still wake up before 8 am, and when I go to bed, I have a 1000 watt streetlamp 2 meters from my window. Finally got some heavy curtains; before, I could read a book with no problem. I second the "get out more" comment. You do have a door, not bars, right?  |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, amount of direct sunlight does not appear to be a top priority for construction companies building officetels or school directors choosing accommodation for their foreign teachers. |
Odd that the country's gone to that. Odd and sad. Approximately thirty years ago, a home owner in one of the big cities (I'm not sure, but I think it was Seoul) actually won a suit against a construction company for constructing a building that blocked direct sunlight to his courtyard (the man had a traditional style house).
Many of my foreign friends here refer to the apartment blocks as dominoes. "One earthquake and they'll all fall down. All it'll take is for one building to go and then it's like dominoes knocking the next in line down!"
That's what's happening to the quality of life for Koreans. Sadly. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| It sucks but, come on, what do you expect for free? |
Again. How many teachers come on here who have crappy apts and shrug their shoulders and say, "well, it's free",\.
It's not free!! You're working for it! They would pay you 400-500,000 extra housing allowance if you didn't take their apartment. |
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Jane
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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I get no direct sunlight into my apartment and my bedroom is permanently dark because it is so close to the building next door.
I don't really care cuz I'm renting, but I wouldn't put a penny down to buy that unit. |
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Korean LaoWei
Joined: 01 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: Offered me money. |
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| I have similar situation with a window very close to the next building. I can see into the kitchen of the fellow in the building next to me. don't really get any sun either and the air flow is really bad so the apartment is hard to air out. My school offered me more money to take the apartment. Apparently it's a big hassle to change apartments for them and I like money so everyone is happy. Besides it's not permanant and the location of the apartment is fairly convenient. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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The_Source
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: apartments - is it normal.. |
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| gingerjuju1986 wrote: |
| ..not to get any light in at all because your only window is literally one metre away from another building? Or is this just a lack of Korean planning permission laws? |
Well, Korea has a very high population density. So of course the buildings need to be close to each other so they can fit that many people on this small piece of land that they call a country.
But hey, look on the bright side. You're probably within walking distance to a lot of restaurants, stores, etc. In the US, I had a 15-minute walk through residential areas just to get to the nearest restaurant. |
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