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marista99
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Run a fan and/or wear foam rubber earplugs. It'll really help. |
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lush72
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: I am Penalty Kick!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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this is the price paid for being the "hub of Asia"
the sound you hear is the sound of progress  |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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However,
Korea is wonderful. There are numerous dwellings places to live.
Just put on your headphones and enjoy the great promotional videos.
"Dynamic Korea, the Hub of Asia" introduces the Korean economy, culture, sports, IT industries, and many more, as seen through the eyes of foreigners.
http://www.korea.net/learnaboutkorea/library/video_korea.html
The housing in Korea is so great that there is no need for standards.
"there were no standards set here for dwelling places."
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200406/24/200406242352057609900090409041.html
The apartment's construction company fiercely protested the ruling, saying there are no current domestic regulations governing indoor air quality. "If the government set standards, we would have followed them. We are dumbfounded that the commission ordered compensation for symptoms that can differ from individual to individual," said a company spokesman.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200406/kt2004062418051911980.htm |
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Gladiator
Joined: 23 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject: Noisy |
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Real Reality,
I like your satire. It does make me smile when I think of that tourist advertisment with President Noh. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Get someone to call the �� office and complain. Legally they aren't allowed to begin work before 8 or something like that. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Get someone to call the �� office and complain. Legally they aren't allowed to begin work before 8 or something like that. |
8am, - exactly correct. I used to have the same problem- they started their jackhammer at precisely 2 minutes to 8, even on a Sunday.
Run down to their bulldozer at around 1 o'clock in the morning and remove the sump plug or maybe cut the wires. It'll take them a few days to get started again. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| Get someone to call the �� office and complain. Legally they aren't allowed to begin work before 8 or something like that. |
Yes and on sundays, there are laws to guard against this kind of thing, it's just that people mostly don't follow up on them. Get in touch with the city. They will keep doing it as long as people don't complain. |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:58 am Post subject: |
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The last couple of months I've been getting that treatment at 7 a.m. on SUNDAYS!
Great advice: complain to the authorities! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. If Koreans don't complain, then a lone waygook-in w/minimal Korean will get them to stop?! Uh-huh.... |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| There's a pale? |
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ohahakehte
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The State of Denial
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| lush72 wrote: |
this is the price paid for being the "hub of Asia"
the sound you hear is the sound of progress |
true. it makes some sense that the "well-being" band wagon has taken off so much. all this development and overwork and its accompanying extreme stress and pollution are probably taking years off the lives of most koreans. may as well eat healthy food while you're working a 20-hour day and then relax in your apartment breathing in filtered air from your air purifier because the air outside is hopelessly polluted from high sales of daewoo's and hyundai's. |
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oldfort
Joined: 09 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: |
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Are you in Bucheon? Regardless, I offer you my sympathies. I don't have any constructive advice, sorry, couldn't resist.
Earplugs worked for me. Moving away really worked for me. |
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marista99
Joined: 05 Jun 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:47 am Post subject: |
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| Mosley wrote: |
The last couple of months I've been getting that treatment at 7 a.m. on SUNDAYS!
Great advice: complain to the authorities! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. If Koreans don't complain, then a lone waygook-in w/minimal Korean will get them to stop?! Uh-huh.... |
That's why one person said have someone call, not actually call them yourself. Have a Korean friend put the smackdown instead  |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| That's kinda my point: it would have to take a hell of a lot of Koreans to complain-and they won't. A few voices, here & there,foreign or Korean, won't make a whit of difference. |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| I do appreciate the feedback. While it's tempting to launch a pre-emptive strike against the machinery (the old sugar-in-the-gas-tank is a classic favorite), I have by now flipped so many ineffectual fingers in their general direction that I'd be a prime suspect in any subsequent investigation. Instead, I'll keep to the high road, borrow a Korean colleague, and head on down to City Hall to register a complaint. And if that doesn't gain results, there's always that sack of sugar. |
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jaykimf
Joined: 24 Apr 2004
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I know
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