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Stan Rogers
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 Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:27 am Post subject: The Smog in Seoul is Terrible |
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| I just got back from Seoul and the smog was terrible there. My friend said it was like that for weeks. I felt like I started smoking or something. Glad to be back in Jeju. Fresh and rainy. |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:37 am Post subject: |
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I have a smokers cough but never smoke. That's how bad it is.
When I leave the place and go hiking then I remember what clean air feels like. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:33 am Post subject: |
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| This thread title is begging for an appearance by Smaug the Golden. |
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Old Painless
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| My sinuses go into emergency shut down mode as soon as I exit the arrival exit to the street at Inchon Intl. |
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Drew345
Joined: 24 May 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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My sinuses and cough have been terrible for a week too.
But the air index says 35, which is green, really good air.
Is this haze just natural fog, or is it pollution? My cough is telling me pollution, but the air index says nice clean fog.
Rather confused (and jealous of Jujuites!) |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Drew345 wrote: |
My sinuses and cough have been terrible for a week too.
But the air index says 35, which is green, really good air.
Is this haze just natural fog, or is it pollution? My cough is telling me pollution, but the air index says nice clean fog.
Rather confused (and jealous of Jujuites!) |
My cough and throat was telling me the same thing. Their pollution gauges are broken or they don't want people to know just how bad the smog really is.
Similar pollution readings in Jeju but I could smell the difference as soon as I got off the plane. |
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wanderkind
Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Drew345 wrote: |
My sinuses and cough have been terrible for a week too.
But the air index says 35, which is green, really good air.
Is this haze just natural fog, or is it pollution? My cough is telling me pollution, but the air index says nice clean fog.
Rather confused (and jealous of Jujuites!) |
I think it's a combination of both. In the the morning fogs and in really humid weather the smog haze seems exponentially worse (even though the air quality website indicates the air is much better than late winter / early spring). A nice rainstorm usually clears it right out though.
The last week or so, visually, has been seriously depressing, but I don't find it nearly as harsh on the lungs as it was during the late winter. Maybe it's just the difference in moisture though. |
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bossface
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| When did expats become a bunch of 9 year old girls? |
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wanderkind
Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| bossface wrote: |
| When did expats become a bunch of 9 year old girls? |
When lungs and smog stopped holding hands and braiding each other's hair we had to step up.
Alternately, when exercising outside became an unhealthy thing.
Or when the world's draw distance became shittier than the average video game.
Also, for some of us it was about 365 days after we became 8 year old girls. |
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