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nukeday
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| I've had a persistent cough for the last few weeks without any accompanying illness. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Awful |
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| creeper1 wrote: |
The air pollution is awful. Absolutely awful.
But that is just part of the poisonous environment.
The water is also very polluted including bottled water.
The food is poisonous. The food is really unhealthy.
Don't even come near China. |
Here are some pics of how bad air pollution gets in Bejing.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/asia/gallery/beijing-smog/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
Pretty scary. |
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Brooks
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:22 am Post subject: |
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So how is the air in Seoul?
Do people need to walk around with face masks? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 5:55 am Post subject: |
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Face masks are indeed worn throughout Korea, especially during the season
of "yellow sand" (dust) that blows in from China.
However, I've never seen the sky black , just sort of a pukey yellow-brown. |
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Brooks
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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Is the smog from Beijing in Seoul now?
I wondered about the air quality in Korea. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| I'm curious as to how many of you that harp on air quality have actually noticed a decline in health after living in K-land or China. I lived in Seoul for five years. I could probably count using only my hands and feet how many days I could see the mountains that surround the city (a bit of an exaggeration, but get the point). I've been in Shanghai for 2 years now and the air is not the best here either. I get full health checks yearly and I'm no worse for the wear for having lived in these places. |
There's a lot of moisture and humidity in the air most of the year. This blocks the view of the mountains more than anything. Autumn more than other seasons seems to have winds blowing this out and revelaing blue sky changes this for a time. But Shanghai is next to the sea. So, would this be the same problem with pollutants mixed in? Never been to China. So, I can't honestly say or compare. Beijing seems nasty with what is happening now. I can feel more chilled in Korea with the dampness in winter than with much colder temperatures and a dryer cold back in Canada. |
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creeper1
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Brooks wrote: |
Is the smog from Beijing in Seoul now?
I wondered about the air quality in Korea. |
What a dumb question.
The smog from Beijing dissipates 3 dimensionally if it ever makes it to Korea it is much, much weaker and basically harmless. |
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ytide
Joined: 26 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
| plenty of "fatpats," |
Fat + Expat? |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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The air was pretty bad in Shanxi Province, but didn't bother me much. Other things were more important. It's where a lot of coal comes from. You'd see those guys coming back from a day's work. A good layer of dust formed easily in the apartment, and it was possible to smell the air from inside a taxi with the windows closed, as I noticed once returning from a trip.
The constant honking of cars was worse. Saw a few accidents there. It was just too crowded everywhere. That city had around 3 million people. I lived near the center of it, in a real busy area. I still went months without seeing a foreign face. That was just a few years ago. Some locals reacted as you might expect when seeing the exotic white guy. Most didn't care. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| ytide wrote: |
| nukeday wrote: |
| plenty of "fatpats," |
Fat + Expat? |
Hahaha, good one. I wonder what Chinese think of fat foreigners who teach there. In Korea, the children say "Hey it's pig teacher." |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Your English is too perfect, it's more like "teechaw pee guh pee guh". |
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Brooks
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Actually China's air pollution has made its way to Japan.
www.japantoday.com |
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