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Mashimaro
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Lots of talk about Goshiwon-tel-'insert konglish here'
on this board, but very little about hasuks. People scared of having to interact with koreans?
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| Come to Haebangcheon. I have a larg(ish) 2 br for W550,000 a month. There are much cheaper options as well. |
Do you have to pay key money for that?
And where is Haebangcheon in relation to Seocho? How much time to get to Seocho from there? I'm a newbie and don't know my way around Seoul yet.
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Real Reality
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Location: Seoul
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adventureman
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
Sounds more like a goshiwan than a hasuk. depending on the area you could probably get a hasuk for the same price with 2 meals a day. For that though you probably wouldn't have your own bathroom. If you want a hasuk with your own shower & toilet your probably looking at 450-500k per month. That said I haven't had experience with places near SNU, but I assume prices are similar.
I'd take the 2 meals a day over my own tiny bathroom because I love good korean ajumma food and hate cooking and buying groceries (eating out all the time gets old too) |
The idea of living in a Hwasuk or Korean boarding house semi-long term sounds almost ideal to me becasue I hate to go grocery shopping/worry about preparing food every night or eat in resturants all the time and I like Korean food enough to the point where I could definately eat it twice a day if I didnt have to worry about the above stuff. I also wouldnt mind living with a bunch of strangers or even sharing a bathroom as long as it was realtively clean and I had my own living space to go back to (and by living space I really dont mean much more than 4 by 4 pyong bed room with some storage space and maybe a desk).
Does anybody have any first hand experince living in one of these situations? Howmuch to they respect your personal splace in ones of these things? Is it more like staying in hotel or a homestay where (from some of the stories ive heard) mothers often feel like the have the power to barge in on you or expect you to help their children with English whenever they feel like it? What if somebody has a girlfriend/boyfriend and wants to bring him/her back to your room for a while? Would that casue problems? Would you have to get love hotels all the time if you wanted any privacy or cuddle time?
How much do these kind of places run? Is it realistic to expect to find one for between 300-500,000 north of the han river in the Seoul city center, including meals and maybe a bathroom? |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| adventureman wrote: |
The idea of living in a Hwasuk or Korean boarding house semi-long term sounds almost ideal to me becasue I hate to go grocery shopping/worry about preparing food every night or eat in resturants all the time and I like Korean food enough to the point where I could definately eat it twice a day if I didnt have to worry about the above stuff. I also wouldnt mind living with a bunch of strangers or even sharing a bathroom as long as it was realtively clean and I had my own living space to go back to (and by living space I really dont mean much more than 4 by 4 pyong bed room with some storage space and maybe a desk).
Does anybody have any first hand experince living in one of these situations? Howmuch to they respect your personal splace in ones of these things? Is it more like staying in hotel or a homestay where (from some of the stories ive heard) mothers often feel like the have the power to barge in on you or expect you to help their children with English whenever they feel like it? What if somebody has a girlfriend/boyfriend and wants to bring him/her back to your room for a while? Would that casue problems? Would you have to get love hotels all the time if you wanted any privacy or cuddle time?
How much do these kind of places run? Is it realistic to expect to find one for between 300-500,000 north of the han river in the Seoul city center, including meals and maybe a bathroom? |
Back in the day ('96~'97) I lived in a couple of different �ϼ�'s in ����. It's not like the mental image conjured up by English term "boarding house." The first consisted of two floors of a building. The kitchen was on the floor below me and the owner would cook meals for us there twice a day (most places offer meals only twice a day). The meal thing was good at first but then my schedule and the meal schedule got out of synch so I didn't eat there as much.
It's not like a bunch people living together and sharing things -- everybody has their own little room and, while I could hear them, I rarely ever saw most of my neighbors. Having people over was no problem -- it's not like I had to walk people past the owner and family watching TV in the living room. |
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adventureman
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| adventureman wrote: |
The idea of living in a Hwasuk or Korean boarding house semi-long term sounds almost ideal to me becasue I hate to go grocery shopping/worry about preparing food every night or eat in resturants all the time and I like Korean food enough to the point where I could definately eat it twice a day if I didnt have to worry about the above stuff. I also wouldnt mind living with a bunch of strangers or even sharing a bathroom as long as it was realtively clean and I had my own living space to go back to (and by living space I really dont mean much more than 4 by 4 pyong bed room with some storage space and maybe a desk).
Does anybody have any first hand experince living in one of these situations? Howmuch to they respect your personal splace in ones of these things? Is it more like staying in hotel or a homestay where (from some of the stories ive heard) mothers often feel like the have the power to barge in on you or expect you to help their children with English whenever they feel like it? What if somebody has a girlfriend/boyfriend and wants to bring him/her back to your room for a while? Would that casue problems? Would you have to get love hotels all the time if you wanted any privacy or cuddle time?
How much do these kind of places run? Is it realistic to expect to find one for between 300-500,000 north of the han river in the Seoul city center, including meals and maybe a bathroom? |
Back in the day ('96~'97) I lived in a couple of different �ϼ�'s in ����. It's not like the mental image conjured up by English term "boarding house." The first consisted of two floors of a building. The kitchen was on the floor below me and the owner would cook meals for us there twice a day (most places offer meals only twice a day). The meal thing was good at first but then my schedule and the meal schedule got out of synch so I didn't eat there as much.
It's not like a bunch people living together and sharing things -- everybody has their own little room and, while I could hear them, I rarely ever saw most of my neighbors. Having people over was no problem -- it's not like I had to walk people past the owner and family watching TV in the living room. |
How much did it cost you? |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| adventureman wrote: |
| How much did it cost you? |
Like I said, that was back in the day. Things are likely more expensive now. But anyway, the first �ϼ� I had a big room for 450,000 a month but decided I couldn't afford that so I moved into the room next door and paid 350,000. That place was smack dab in the middle of party land ����.
The second place was off to the side of ���� near the post office which is across from ����'s southwest corner. It was, if memory serves, around 275,000. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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How much do these kind of places run? Is it realistic to expect to find one for between 300-500,000 north of the han river in the Seoul city center, including meals and maybe a bathroom? |
Definitely realistic, you can get a fairly big room and perhaps tiny private bathroom for that. I never had a problem with privacy, it's in the owner's interests to keep you happy (and your rent money rolling in)
I'd say you can have as much or as little to do with your housemates as you want.
Unis seem to have started back so that could be to your advantage, as most koreans will move in at the start of the semester. 500k seems to be the maximum for any hasuks I've heard of, if you pay that you would really be wanting a biggish room. Taking a korean friend along may or may not help get a reasonable deal.
Sharing a bathroom was no biggie for me as sometimes there were only 5 or 6 people in the whole place, but could be inconvenient in bigger places. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have to pay key money for that?
And where is Haebangcheon in relation to Seocho? How much time to get to Seocho from there? I'm a newbie and don't know my way around Seoul yet. |
My key money was only a million won. Haebangcheon is the foreigner's ghetto and I am the goddamn mayor.
From Seocho, go over the Banpo bridge, go through the tunnel under Itaewonno, pass Noksapyeong Stn., at the first big intersection get into the left hand lane. Welcome to the catchpool. |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| Welcome to the catchpool. |
Have you seen that beer-drinking dog at Phillies? |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| That's my girlfriend. Phillies is closed up tight as Betty Davis. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you get key money from your employer? I live in Nakseongdae, the next stop over from Seoul National University and I pay for 270,000 for decent sized room, free cable and internet and electricity included, bathroom, blah blah blah. The catch is my employer paid 10,000,000 in key money. I don't know the rate if less had been paid. There are one-rooms popping up so often here that the prices have really been depressed. |
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thorin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a little disappointed no one made a STD joke. |
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