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Do you have a separate shower in your bathroom in Korea?
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Do you have a separate shower?
yes, I have a separate shower.
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 62%  [ 41 ]
no, I don't have a separate shower.
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 37%  [ 25 ]
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ramen209



Joined: 14 Apr 2009

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:08 pm    Post subject: Do you have a separate shower in your bathroom in Korea? Reply with quote

My bathroom/shower is all in one, with a showerhead on the bathroom wall, basically you shower over your sink and toilet, there is a drain in the middle of the floor.

Is this standard or do most of you have separate showers?

(A separate shower would include a shower door or divider of some sort from the rest of the bathroom, with a separate drain.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, separate showers are pretty rare here.
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lsrupert



Joined: 27 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Separate showers are extremely rare!! I am finishing up my sixth year here, and have been in as many apartments. Only one of the six had a separate shower. The only reason that there was a tub/shower in that one was because an American couple had lived in it prior to me. The apartment in which I now live has the wonderful shower head above the sink. I just put up a tension rod and hung a shower curtain from it so that the toilet and rest of the bathroom doesn't get wet. It works. I'm just thankful for good water pressure!
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Bloopity Bloop



Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like having a combined toilet and shower. Now I can pee while showering without it being gross to my girlfriends! Cool
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bigscott



Joined: 08 Oct 2005
Location: Incheon

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The last 2 apartments I lived in have had a separate shower. The one I am in now has 2 bathrooms... one with the separate shower and the other with a bath tub. I think a lot of the newer apartments are getting into the western shower idea.
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mmstyle



Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: wherever

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a semi-separate shower. There is a glass "wall" that separates half of the shower, and I hang a shower curtain for the rest. Except teh floor, everything stays dry. But I don't know why the floor isn't part of this....it gets nasty really fast and needs to be cleaned constantly.

While were at at it, I wish they would add ondol below the bathroom, a la Scandinavian countries. I like a warm floor there, and it keeps the floor cleaner/less moldy as well. Oh well.
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definitely maybe



Joined: 16 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bigscott wrote:
The last 2 apartments I lived in have had a separate shower. The one I am in now has 2 bathrooms... one with the separate shower and the other with a bath tub. I think a lot of the newer apartments are getting into the western shower idea.


I'm in the same boat. Our master bathroom has a separate shower, and our other bathroom has a full-sized tub. Newer apartments often come equipped with ovens and kimchi fridges as well. Not bad.
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jonpurdy



Joined: 08 Jan 2009
Location: Ulsan

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bloopity Bloop wrote:
I like having a combined toilet and shower. Now I can pee while showering without it being gross to my girlfriends! Cool


+1, but minus 0.5.

The logic is there but they still think it's gross Smile
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rickpidero



Joined: 03 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:44 pm    Post subject: ya Reply with quote

Yeah, I have a divider thing, so I feel kind of lucky. But, my hot water is pretty hit or miss. One day its real hot and the next it's freezing (most days actually). I feel like it's completely random.
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Easter Clark



Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

definitely maybe wrote:
bigscott wrote:
The last 2 apartments I lived in have had a separate shower. The one I am in now has 2 bathrooms... one with the separate shower and the other with a bath tub. I think a lot of the newer apartments are getting into the western shower idea.


I'm in the same boat. Our master bathroom has a separate shower, and our other bathroom has a full-sized tub. Newer apartments often come equipped with ovens and kimchi fridges as well. Not bad.


+1 (minus the kimchi fridge!)
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rowdie3



Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Location: Itaewon, Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a shower/bathtub with a sweet green shower curtain to boot.

Bathtub is small but has the magical ability to cure hangovers when soaked in.
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ChilgokBlackHole



Joined: 21 Nov 2009

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's gonna depend on how big and how old the place is. My apartment has a shower / bathtub that's quite large. My boss's place is in the same complex as mine, except his apartuh is much larger, and his has two of the same. His old place, however, again in the same complex, had one of each type.
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Goon-Yang



Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Underwaterbob wrote:
Actually, separate showers are pretty rare here.


There are rare in small crappy one room places. I hate those sink thingies. I'd never get a place if they had only that.
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hate the combo shower except for one thing- cleaning.
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Css



Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i love the wet room concept..
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