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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: What does 15 PYEONG equal???? |
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I just don't get the conversion from square metres to pyeong...
I got offered a job with a 15 pyeong single room apartment...
I read a pyeong is 3.3 square metres; my wife tells me it is 1.8metres x 1.8 metres... neither seems realistic....
A single room that is 25 square metres?? That's a big freakin' room.
Can anyone give me a point of reference?
Does this mean I can play half a game of tennis in my room... 25 metres... if I fill it with water have I got myself half an olympic swimming pool... Why can't I figure this measurement out?
Thanks for any attempts at explanation... I must be thick. |
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Sage Monkey
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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1 Py (Pyeong)=3.3 square meters=35.6 square feet.
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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15 pyeong is what me and the girl are in now and it's just about comfortable.
Of course i want more but I live in Gangnam so.... |
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Drakoi
Joined: 26 Sep 2003
Location: The World
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| be careful. sometimes the pyung stated actually includes a fraction of the common areas. (stairs, elevator, lobby, etc). There's an inside measurement, and a total measurment. I can't remember the korean words right now, but I'm sure someone here knows them. 15 pyung is about a medium sized one-room studio. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| 15 pyong is nice for a single person (its what I have now, and I am fine) but I moved out of an 8 pyong, which sucked. |
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juicyhumdinger
Joined: 03 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: |
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the measurement not only includes common areas, but often the parking space for your car and the elevator as well.
A couple can do 15 pyong, but I found it just right for me when I had a studio apt with no walls. |
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J.B. Clamence
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:44 am Post subject: Re: What does 15 PYEONG equal???? |
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| babtangee wrote: |
| I read a pyeong is 3.3 square metres; my wife tells me it is 1.8metres x 1.8 metres... |
These are both the same, and they are both correct. (1.8m x 1.8m = 3.24 square meters)
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neither seems realistic....
A single room that is 25 square metres?? That's a big freakin' room. |
Not really. A 25 square meter room could be 5 meters long and five meters wide. Or 6.25 meters long and 4 meters wide. Think about it: It's not that big at all. Besides, 15 pyeong would be 49.5 square meters, wouldn't it?
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Does this mean I can play half a game of tennis in my room... 25 metres... if I fill it with water have I got myself half an olympic swimming pool... Why can't I figure this measurement out?
Thanks for any attempts at explanation... I must be thick. |
You're not thick, you just need a geometry refresher course. As I explained above, 25 square meters is not 25 meters by 25 meters. 25 is the result of multiplying the length and the width (for example, 5m long x 5m wide = 25 square meters). However, as I also explained, 15 pyeong is 49.5 square meters, not 25. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: What does 15 PYEONG equal???? |
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Thanks everyone for some very helpful explanations of just where I would stand, sit, lay, curse-cause-I-can't-get-away.
| J.B. Clamence wrote: |
You're not thick, you just need a geometry refresher course. As I explained above, 25 square meters is not 25 meters by 25 meters. 25 is the result of multiplying the length and the width (for example, 5m long x 5m wide = 25 square meters). However, as I also explained, 15 pyeong is 49.5 square meters, not 25. |
And thank you Clamence for the geometry lesson. Finally I get it! |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| And sometimes the measurement doesn't include the balcony(ies). You just have to make sure you ask. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| However you measure it, 10 pyeong is perfect for one guy and his cat, for me anyways. To have 5 more would be a luxury. It can't be too small a place anyways. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| If your talkin about an officetel, 15 pyung is more like 8 pyung. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| My officetel states 18 pyung, the main room being about 9.5 pyung. Kitchen and bathroom at some, but doesn't equal 18 at all. Guess I have a parking space somewhere. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:49 am Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
| If your talkin about an officetel, 15 pyung is more like 8 pyung. |
Yes.
Here's a breakdown of the floor space in the popular LG Eclat brand of officetel.
Advertised as 16 pyong (actually a bit more than 16 when you add up the following)
Public-use area: 4.3 pyong <-- your sliver of the elevator, landing, stairs, guard box, etc.
Parking area: 3.7 pyong <-- most foreigners in Korea don't even have a car.
Private-use area: 8.6 <-- This is where you live. Where you eat, sleep, drink, study, cook, shower, surf the Net, raise a pet, grow plants, entertain guests, cry, do immoral things, and pray. (Though I expect to be flamed for saying so) It is an area about the size of my bedroom, and considerably smaller than my living room. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| 15 pyung=533.78 square feet |
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