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prosodic · Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Location: ��

It sounds to me like a lot of people are living in the projects. I've lived in fairly nice neighborhoods in Ilsan; Kangseo-gu, Seoul; YeonSinnae, Seoul; and a couple of other places. I've never encountered any of these noise problems. Except for the veggie trucks, but they're cool.

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

The Man known as The Man · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

Imagine Charlottetown Dec 31, 1999.

The party to end all parties

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject:

Growing up on Vancouver Island I developed quite the fetish for sleeping with the rain. But the rain in Korea is too hard for me to sleep with. The rain is too noisy.

frogrocket · Joined: 29 May 2004 Location: Tiny Monkey Ville S. Korea

I live in SMALL TOWN Korea...let me FYI you...

Blasting horns at midnight....blaring tv's from the apartment beside...I can even hear them flush their toilet that's how close we are...

Laughing, joking, flighting, screaming, whining Korean women all hours...

NOT TO MENTION.......THE HORNIEST ALLEY-CATS I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED...I am tempted to start a collection of old boots to throw at them....

Bring EarMUFFS....like the kind the construction workers in N.America use for drilling the sidewalks...SWEET DREAMS!

Tinyteg · Joined: 06 May 2004 Location: Gwangju

Korea is 'The Land of Morning Din'. When I hear people eating, it is like listening to a elephant eating jelly off a pile of mashed bananas.

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

If you have the misfortune to live in a "one room" then you will probably have bad experiences with noisy neighbours. I live on the ground floor and the kids run around at the back of my window from 8am until 11am. They must be 4 or 5. At the other side(front door) my neighbours tie a dog beside their door from 7 or sometimes from 9 am.(a puppy which makes a lot of noise). On Sunday mornings at 4 am I "knock a door run" both their doors when I am loaded!

peemil · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: Koowoompa

Bloody oath it's too noisy. Had one night there on my way to the US from Australia on my holiday. Christ that place is noisy.

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

"It sounds to me like a lot of people are living in the projects." Good point. I've lived in the Korean government's subsidized appartments (the low rentals like we'd call them back home), and they are insanely noisy: kids screaming their heads off, drunks banging on the wrong doors, spouses having screaming matches, etc. The parking is also horrendous. Besides having to find a spot that isn't occupied of blocked by a 10 ton truck, you have to dodge three year-olds on tricycles without parental supervision at all times of the day. When the parents are present, they don't tell their kids to get on the sidewalk (my wife claims they hope the kids will be run over to get money).

We've moved in a new neighborhood where people buy their appartments instead of renting, and it's like a whole new world. The kids are supervised by their parents. They are also far better behaved (no screams that send chills up your back). There are fewer people who park so close to the building you'd think they are checking to see if it would fit in the elevator. The cleaning lady must be the hardest working person in Korea because the place is immaculate. They also don't allow vendors to set foot on the property, so no annoying 'Yangpa! Bossot! Maneul!" blasting out of a loudspeaker at 5 am.

Saxiif · Joined: 15 May 2003 Location: Seongnam

While it IS noisy it isn't that bad. The apartment walls are pretty thick, so even if they're noisy you won't hear as much of it as at some other places. Also they don't play music as loud as in Latin America (although I did have to drag myself out of bed to scream at a guy who was blasting Brittney Spears at 7 in the morning last week) and there aren't anywhere near as many stray animals as in Latin America (or at least Santa Cruz, Bolivia).