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[igotthisguitar]

>. Seems like a simple enough question

Oh yah, i almost forgot. Do people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little
bottles of Evian water know that spelling it backwards is Naive?

[Ilsanman]

I was buying 1.5 litre bottles of mineral water for less than 1000 won.

Call me reckless with cash if you want, but that sounds pretty reasonable.

[justagirl]

You can buy 6, 2-Liter bottles at Lotte Mart/ or E-Mart for about 2,700.

There's a reason people don't drink the tap water here. (or in most countries around the world, for that matter)

[dutchman]

We have a filter system. The Woongjin lady comes once a month to change the filter. I think we're paying 30,000 a month for it.

[pet lover]

This post serves no purpose.

[sublimeshawn]

i fill up at te school and drink that filtered water, but damn I miss drinking from the tap! I have drank from the tap when I ran out and was too lazy to go get some bottled water and I never felt anything, so who the hell knows!

[manlyboy]

Actually I just boil the tap water. Did the same in Jakarta for 2 years and never got sick. However, went swimming near Incheon last week and copped a big gob-full of West Sea brine. Now that is what I call a health risk!

[just because]

yes and no.

I don't drink out of the tap however when i have my coffee I use boiled tap water and I'm fine.

[Dalton]

I got a Korean friend to phone and get me a hot/cold water dispenser. The deal is that I have to buy at least 1 18.9L bottle of water a week at 5000w each. I guess I could've bought one used and still had the guys bring me water. I just put an empty outside and they replace it with a full one Monday mornings.

[peppermint]

Actualy you don't even need to get the hot and cold dispenser. I've got a little hand pump that goes onto the bottle. the pump cost me around 15,000,and when I priced the hot and cold dispensers they were in the 200,000 range.

[Dalton]

Good advice. I'm moving in a month. I think I'll check out that pump. Using 18.9 liters of water a week requires a certain talent, even for two thirsty people, when the weather is cool. Thanks Peppermint.

[Homer]

Nawww...bottled stuff.

Then again, back home I drank filtered water too...

[Yangkho]

Out in the country people fill up at medicinal water springs...maybe you could argue about whether that's safer than tap water, but I haven't gotten sick yet and I've drunk quite a lot of the stuff.

[matthewwoodford]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that the tap water is pretty safe from germs but is contaminated with lead. Boiling won't get lead out and I doubt if filters will either. I drink it sometimes anyway...

[lush72]

The dog sometimes drinks it if he has a chance, but we never (the better half and I) do.