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[kiwiboy_nz_99]

It's not cold yet, it's warm as toast! I still sweat on the subway if I don't my suit jacket off! It's gonna get cold, and I hate it, but it's not cold yet! It's bloody lovely!

[captain kirk]

Homer's back. Where's he been. It's been what, months?
Yeah, I'm a manly 'Canadasaram' who wears sandals all year long here. Even if Koreans I don't know, jealous of my hot, Nordic, manly metabolism, call me pabo.
Have you ever noticed how nobody takes off their shirt here? The building manager, as an aside to complaining about my noisy, muffler-less motorcycle, also said 'you don't wear a shirt'. During the summer there was no air con. I'd take out the garbage from being shirtless in my shack. The other apartment ajummas apparently made a point to complain about this minute of nude torso. Was it my man *beep*? Or 'mannaries'? (just joking about that, but something's jiggling as I laugh. Naw, that's muscle ).
Or out on the sports field, soccer. Nobody shirtless. Just, and only, at the beach.
Well, it's rolling around to jack up the ondol season again.
I gotta whine about that.
So you've got these big glass sliding doors either end of the box of the apartment which, in Summer, are a causeway for breeze. Cool. Ancient architecture because you can see the principal at work in the design of ancient dwellngs. But ondol? Sure, it makes sense to heat the floor because you sleep on it here. Very healthy. In the West we're under lots of blankets. Here the floor is radiant and rises up into the body, ah.
Sure, great. But what about those big, sliding glass double doors either end of the box leaking in cold and out heat? Then the ondol bill comes, hula baby it's -I can't believe it- is that 150 thousand won. Am I reading it right? Yeah, hmm, a gas jet has been flaring away constantly like a taxi meter clicking heating up that water running around in its tube-loop. The wonderful hot floor seems suddenly a gold digger. Time for austerity.
I'm going to tape aluminum foil up onto the walls. Unless it freaks you out Come over for coffee and we can be protected from microwave radiation, as well

[optimus d]

do they have those plastic insulators that you put over the windows here? its more or less saran wrap for windows which worked pretty well back in canada. i havent had a winter here yet but ive been warned about the ridiculously high heating costs here - ondols are oil furnaces right?

me

[JaphieR]

When the piss of drunken Koreans taking a casual leak on the sidewalk freezes while its coming out, I'll be satisfied. I hated coming to work with my shirts drenched in sweat everyday. Bring on the winter.

[endo]

I'm from Winnipeg, Canada and i'm looking forward to see how different Korea's winters are to the one's back home.

Thankfully they won't be as bad as -30 or -50 with the windchill.

[just because]

i could see my breath tonight(and I live in the south)...ha ha ha ha, you poor dumb northern seoulites sucking it up in the cold.

seoul ain't all its cracked up to be. You've got the warmies down here.

[ajuma]

Sure, there are a few really cold days, but I don't turn my ondol on (for those newbies here, that means "floor heat") until at LEAST December or January. Most Koreans keep their apartments/flats really warm and that heat rises!

Like my mom used to say "You're cold??? Put on a sweater!!!"

[JaphieR]