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NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

I got home after stopping off at Homeplus to pick up some frozen seafood mandoo and the entire stock of whole wheat pasta (a friend tipped me off that after nearly 4 months of being out, they had it stocked again). I'd just put on the water to steam them when the woman who works in the building management office rang my doorbell. She explained that I needed to join her in the office.

Apparently, the apartments are owned by different people, and the owner of mine didn't want to file some paperwork necessary for insurance, and I'm not allowed to live in an apartment without that insurance per the board of education. How lovely of the landlord.

So now I've got to move to another floor and lose my southern exposure. Mind you, while at Homeplus I picked up some pretty pots for the the new herbs I was planning on adding to my garden. Not to mention the fact that I won't have as toasty a place come winter. JOY!

Ugh. 10 days to box everything up and give it a decent clean. The office lady told me I could take boxes from the back, where people put their recycling--about 3 meters from the garbage. No thank you!

Just venting here. My mandoo is yummy, though. Sighs... Rolling Eyes

bde2 · Joined: 19 Feb 2010

Bummer, sorry to hear about that... In situations like this, I think they should really give at least 15 - 30 days notice. That said, I think you're lucky you got 10. A couple of people I knew at my old hogwan were informed just 2 days before they needed to move. It was a Friday, and one of the Korean office workers told them they needed to be out by the end of Sunday. So long, weekend...

Enjoy the mandu.

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

Don't clean it NYCGirl. (1) You don't have to, it's not expected and you will be not be billed for cleaning if you don't do it. (2) Some people regard it as bad luck (you'll clean the luck out of the apartment or some such nonsense..)

10 days is massive. You're very lucky. I worked with a girl who was told by the boss that she was fired, effective the end of that day. She had to move out the same day. She wasn't allowed to finish early on her final day either.. she had from 7:30pm until the morning to move out with no chance of finding somewhere else that day. She was Korean so she did it.

Caffeinated · Joined: 11 Feb 2010

Hyeon Een · Joined: 24 Jun 2005

Dragoon · Joined: 18 Apr 2010

Hey NYC girl...just wondering why you added the whole seafood/whole wheat pasta thing to your story as it had no real bearing on your whole moving dilemma.

Oh I get it now...you just wanted to let all the other waygooks know how 웰빙 you are like you do in all of your other posts...allright thanks for the heads up Smile

confucian · Joined: 13 May 2010

Dragoon · Joined: 18 Apr 2010

NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

I was setting the scene. Usually when people tell a story for the sake of telling a story, they use this thing called background. I was f-ing hungry and this "meeting" took well over an hour and a half.

I know 10 days is a lot of notice in the ROK. I'm just unnecessarily stressed and wanted to vent.

peppermint · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:05 am Post subject:

NYCgal- the new place might be great, don't give up hope yet.
As for notice- I personally got told at three PM that the movers would be at my house at 4 but the workday finished at 5, and no, I wasn't allowed to leave early that day to deal with it. I got home, and the movers were carrying my dirty laundry down the stairs! Mad

NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

WOW Peppermint! That's nuts!

The apartment is exactly the same as my current one, albeit 5 floors up and lacking southern exposure. They tried to sell me the idea with "It'll be cooler in summer," but I have AC, so it never affected me. What stinks is that it'll be so much colder in the winter.

I know it's not the biggest problem in the world, or even a moderate one at that. I'm just not happy with the realtor wanting to bring people to mine while I'm at work. I'm going to have my coteacher explain to her that she's going to have to set up showings in the evening, when I'm home.

Imagine the faces when they see my 2 pet rats!

peppermint · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject:

I knew they were looking for an apartment for me, but I thought I'd have til the end of the month. There'd been a bit of a mix up when I started, and I was temporarily sharing a two bedroom apartment with a male teacher at another school in the city. I guess one of the parents got wind and thought we were shacking up. Rolling Eyes

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

NYC_Gal · Joined: 08 Dec 2009

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

My second year I got notice the day after Christmas at 9 am that I had to move at 2 pm (long story that involved the local school board pocketing housing allowance).

Your situation is an inconvenience, but 10 days isn't too bad.