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[sadguy]

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]

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]

Boil it then it's fit to drink

[Zyzyfer]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[toonchoon]

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

[ChrisLamp]

[rainism]

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]