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DrugstoreCowgirl · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:22 pm Post subject: Flush the Toilet!

I'm so grossed out. The bathroom at school smells like something died in it. It smells terrible every single day. There's never any toilet paper. 95% of the time you go into a stall the person before you hasn't flushed (and hasn't used TP). There is poo smeared on the floor in 2 of the stalls. There is frequently pee in the middle of the bathroom and once right in the doorway.

Why is it so hard to flush the toilet? Or to actually USE the toilet? Is this a common problem or is my school just really disgusting??

crisdean · Joined: 04 Feb 2010 Location: Seoul Special City

DrugstoreCowgirl · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: Flush the Toilet!

nomad-ish · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject:

my first school was like this (lower income PS), but not quite as bad as yours. have you checked the teachers' bathrooms or other floors for cleaner bathrooms? i ended up traveling occasionally 3 floors down and across the school just to get to the clean toilets.

chellovek · Joined: 29 Feb 2008

Bbang! · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Location: Seoul

I teach at a wealthy school smack in the heart of Gangnam and there is no shortage of turd on the walls or pee on the floor. It's not a rural thing - it's a Korea thing, and I don't think the children are 100% responsible.

southernman · Joined: 15 Jan 2010 Location: On the mainland again

I live and teach in the sticks on Geoje. All of the toilets are really clean and 'fresh smelling' apart from the occassional K teacher getting over a big night of soju.

The toilets in my last city hagwon stank badly.

Country kids in my experience, are much more hygenic than their spoilt brat city counterparts

dumpring · Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Location: Auckland, NZ

The kid's bathroom in our hakwon smells like an open sewer, the boss has to keep two sets of doors closed to keep the reek out of the rest of the building. No to mention when you walk past it late at night the scourge of roaches that swarm away from it.

Glad the teachers bathroom is spotless!!

notafbiagent · Joined: 31 Mar 2010

brickabrack · Joined: 17 May 2010

I think it is more of a plumbing thing than actually 'flushing the toilet'.

If it's yellow, let it mellow.
If it's brown, flush it down. Water is not a renewable resource.
Before you pounce on me, think about it.

I am not justifying stinking bathrooms, so maybe this mantra ^^^ does not apply in K.

The plumbing is terrible, and in the summer..... it wafts into every breathable space imaginable.

Shi+ on the walls, piss on the floor? Disgusting. No toilet paper. I just assumed everyone provided their own. Most parts of Asia are like that, no?
I could be mistaken, but that has been my exp in 3 different countries.

You must understand, 'stinky bathrooms' are the culture.

Illysook · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

I think that it's fine to "let it mellow" in the privacy of your own home, but when I go to use a public restroom and must "flush something" I really don't want to risk any splashback from your "mellowing" waste.

Thanks for flushing.

brickabrack · Joined: 17 May 2010

ah, I said to think about it.

I don't let back splash affect me because I have control.
I guess it is the 'clean' in me.

Troglodyte · Joined: 06 Dec 2009

amcnutt · Joined: 22 Mar 2010

Can you flush the toilet paper in most parts of Seoul metropolitan area? Is it just old schools/plumbing that can't handle the TP?
I have a weak stomach and might puke if I sit near wastebaskets of poopy paper.
I guess I can adapt to that though if I have to!

WadRUG'naDoo · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Location: Shanghai