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[plokiju]

I'm getting a little annoyed at the moment. I don't live in a high rise and the next building is maybe 6 feet away. I can hear all kinds of conversations, arguments, computer noises, TV's and right now a crying baby and it's 1:30am. Am I the only one?

[Pyongshin Sangja]

The 8 lane highway outside distracts from the neighbours.

[buddy bradley]

Depends how loud I burp or turn the volume on the TV up.

Why do you ask? What's it to you? Why do you want to know? You a stalker? Stay the hell away from me man, I've had it with guys like you.

[keithinkorea]

I live in the noisiest neghbourhood in Seoul.

[buddy bradley]

[Grotto]

My apartment is quiet. I am occasionally disturbed by the distant barking of a dog, a bird chirping outside my window or the sound of crickets. Off in the distance I can rarely hear the blast of a horn as some moron runs the red light and honks to let everyone know he is going through.

[Derrek]

My walls are SOLID. I often hear the neighbors TV blaring when I'm walking past her door in the hallway, but the sound doesn't travel through the wall between us, which is nice.

I sometimes hear stuff above me, but usually just when they are moving furniture around. If I have my windows open, I hear the ajosshi who hacks so hard every morning it sounds like he's vomiting (seriously). I wonder if he's got cancer or something. Terrible.

Otherwise, the only noise that bothers me in here are the STUPID F-ing police who, every several weeks, like to sit on our corner and blare out on their loudspeaker at passing cars. Stupid f_cks. It echos all through the buildings in this area, and we have to hear it. One guy started doing that at 8am on a Saturday morning, and kept it up until almost noon. I wish he would have gotten off of his lazy ass and arrested people instead of just barking at them all day.

If I suddenly disappear from Dave's, perhaps I'm sitting in lockup for taking a bat to one of those loudspeakers.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Captain Corea]

There's a mini-mountain right outside my bedroom window. I know Korea doesn't have any large animals but sometimes I swear it sounds like a jungle out there

(a "Mehme" landed on my window a week back and I swear that is one of the loudest animals I've ever heard screaming through my screen)

[mindmetoo]

[brento1138]

[keithinkorea]

[Tiger Beer]

quiet. so quiet its strange. and i live in a very loud popular neighborhood in the heart of Seoul. What a wonder a little alley that cars can't drive through can do.

i'm also on a top floor.. meaning i don't even hear people in my apt bldg.

[animalbirdfish]

My place is too close to the street, which means I hear the garbage truck going by late at night, drunken goobers fighting with their women (and chasing them up and down the street, as happened the other night), people talking/yelling, etc.

I don't know what it is about Koreans and noise. They mostly seem oblivious to it and aren't too considerate when it comes to keeping the noise to a minimum for their neighbors' sake. Walking through a residential neighborhood - like mine - late at night, you'd expect people to consider that perhaps others are trying to sleep. Not in Korea, though.

[denverdeath]

My current place is a hell of a lot better than the last place. Just three minor problems. 1) The surround-sound chickens. 2) The 6am Korean honeydew melon salesman(really loud and annoying voice on him) 3) Payphone across the street where some drunk fellows sometimes pull over to call their estranged loves. They usually have some sh*tty K-pop song or ballad blasting through the open doors of their cars while they cry and beg forgiveness from their pretty princesses. Oh, almost forgot lucky number 4. 4) Those stupid crane machines that people try to get a free bottle of whiskey from. The drunken idiots are often kicking and pounding the things at four in the morning.