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[koreakk]

For the past week, my Korean neighbor has been moving furniture around, talking/laughing loudly, and letting bottles fall on their floor between the hours of 11pm-4am. I live right below this person, so I hear everything. Especially moving the furniture around, as it shakes my whole apartment! It's driving me crazy!

How can I ask this person nicely, in Korean, to keep the noise down?

[Captain Corea]

To be honest... Koreans wouldn't normally ask someone to keep the noise down.

They'd bear it for some time. Then, they'd go to the Kyyongbi-Ajjoshi and ask them to do something about it.

Rarely will a Korean go up and confront a neighbour.


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So as to your question - nearly any phrase that you learn, no matter how polite, it may run you afoul of the goal you are trying to achieve.

[Weigookin74]

First point to your watch and make sleeping gesture. He should understand body language. If that doesn't work, get your boss or co teacher to call the building owner about the noise. If that don't work, bang on the ceiling and scream out the window "Shut up". If that don't work, scream out your door through the building to shut up. Call 112 and the GPS system will find you. Sometimes people have no common sense and you gotta lay down the law. (But if you go that route, make sure your fighting skills are up to date. I don't suggest using it, but if the guy's a defensive jerk who swings at you because he sees it as his obnoxious right to make a lot of noise, then be prepared. This can happen in the West too, by the way, with college student neighbors or living in a poor rough area.)

Other options are to take the noise or move to a newer and nicer building.

[Weigookin74]

[fezmond]

I have two students (I think) who live below me and are playing the guitar 'til 2 am most nights. We ask the landlord to sort it out and it works for a while. However, the gits get brash again and start wailing when they're drunk. To be fair they can play pretty well but it's annoying. We just keep telling the landlord.

Make his/her life hell with complaints and they'll sort it out with the offenders.

[sligo]

Turn up the sub woofer, put heavy bass music on playlist, put subwoofder on the floor, go out all night, wait for their complaints, then strike a deal to respect each other.

[Weigookin74]

[highstreet]

I'd ask first before resorting to childish tactics. My neighbor asked me to turn my tv down the first week I moved in. I honestly didn't think it was loud, thin walls I suppose.

[PigeonFart]

Use google images to make a poster showing people making noise....
http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/media/image/4/5/ASB-TV-man-web.jpg

Then use MS Word to add a big red 'forbidden' circle.

Then write the times 00:00 - 08:00 underneath to imply not making noise during these hours. Place it on his door, or in his letter box.

If you don't know how to make your own poster (using the 'print screen button' and 'crop' function, then just google a similar image).

This is a good first step (and non-confrontational way). Don't write any words (korean or english), just put images. The next step if the noise persists would be the same picture, but then add a sentance. Gradual increments like this can have a good psychological effect. Subtle but effective.

[nautilus]

[3DR]

I've found talking to the neighbors here does absolutely nothing. There are some girls next to me who I guess work at a bar every night because they come home anywhere from 3-6am, stay up for a few hours (right before I wake up for work), then sleep all day.

I've confronted them many times, told the nightguard, but it still happens. So I just bounce my basketball on the wall, which quiets them down for about 2 days, then they are back at it.

I was tempted to blast my music all day while I'm at work, but I haven't been pissed off that much yet and it could make things worse.

[fustiancorduroy]

[Unibrow]

It's not really my neighbors but how the hell do I get the apple truck guy to avoid my apartment?

[joeteacher]

[3DR]