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sadguy · Joined: 13 Feb 2011

do you guys just buy bottled water? do people even drink water? i know some people who think water "tastes gross." i saw a brita filter at emart and thinking about getting that instead.

cincynate · Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Location: Jeju-do, South Korea

I think the Korean tap water tastes much more heavily clorinated than water back home. I just buy the Sam Da Soo water from E-mart.. It's cheap, and cost me about 3 천 a week. But those britta things are very good at taking the clorine out of the water.. How much are they?? I haven't seen them at my e-mart.

Squire · Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Location: Jeollanam-do

Boil it then it's fit to drink

Zyzyfer · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject:

Water tastes gross? Hahah. Weird people thinking that.

I drink most water at work and use the tap on mornings and weekends generally. I might get one of those filters eventually, but I'm not terribly good at discerning good- and bad-tasting water.

One Shot · Joined: 23 Aug 2011

I'd recommend getting a Brita water filter. I have one and it works great. You can find them for $30 on Gmarket.

If you factor in the cost of the refills, they might not be as cheap as the other options, but I value the convenience of not having to boil water or lug around water bottles. Especially if your thinking about refilling the bottles at school.

isisaredead · Joined: 18 May 2010

i have a water cooler. it costs about W10,000 per month to rent, with forty litres of water being an additional W10,000.

i go through about sixty litres a month. it's great - hot and cold water instantly for coffee and ice tea.

ask your boss to hook you up.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I lease a Coway watercooler/icemaker which has lovely twinkly lights for 45,000 per month. It does some kind of mega-super 4-phase filtration process on the mains water.

Get this. It's actual cost if you buy it? 2,300,000!!! For a watercooler??!!!

jamesd · Joined: 15 Aug 2011 Location: Korea

I get my drinking water from a natural spring (Yak-Su?) near my apartment. The spring water actually taste better than bottled water.

toonchoon · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Location: Gangnam

I drank it if I ran out of bottled water. Tastes funny but there's nothing wrong with Seoul's water (and most of Korea's water, for that matter). I use a countertop filter these days, and drink filtered tap water. Tastes just like the water out of the plastic bottle you buy at the local supermarket Wink

ChrisLamp · Joined: 27 Jul 2010

rainism · Joined: 13 Apr 2011

I'll never buy water so long as I live so long as I am not in some truly depressed, water contaminated area.

this is the biggest capitalistic scam on truly STOOoooPID people in the developed world, especially the USA.

Boil your tapwater if really concerned. Put into refrigerator. Repeat as needed.
Problem solved.

rainism · Joined: 13 Apr 2011

SNOTOSEOUL · Joined: 12 Apr 2010

the water is fine to drink from the tap

toby99 · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:53 am Post subject:

I have three of the jumbo water bottles that I refill once a week at my PS. It does suck lugging them home, but it gets me free water and lets the school know they won't nickel and dime me.

DaHu · Joined: 09 Feb 2011

Don't drink the tap water. You never know what will happen to you later in life if you do.

People who say they had no problems aren't 60 years old and trying to hold on to life.

20-year-old smokers say smoking doesn't cause them any problems.