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Amai · Joined: 25 Mar 2006

Hi,,

Can anybody give me the name of the top comany that truly has clean water?? You know the jug-apartment kind that gets delivered.

I got very sick in Korea from bottled water--only to find out they were filling the bottles with tap!!

Please let me know if you have any leads,

Thanks
Amai

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

what company does that? and wouldn't you know right when you tasted it?

there's somebody on this forum who likes to go into great detail about how he gets jugs of water delivered and saves money. maybe he'll respond to this or try the super-accurate search function.

kangnam mafioso · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Teheranno

you are full of shi** and paranoid. bottle water in korea is perfectly safe. calm down.

Col.Brandon · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Location: Seoul

I wouldn't put it past some of those bastages.

I use a steam distiller. If you want something done properly (especially here!) do it yourself.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Just get a water purifier for your house..

Firstly get the bottled water, then boil it and put it througha purifier...won't get much cleaner than that.

I too have seen cases of tap water(or maybe it was the river water) being sold as bottle but this wasn't stuff sold in the supermarket but when you go away up into the mountains or a couple of times on jeju....

margaret · Joined: 14 Oct 2003

We had Sparkle water delivered to our house. It was clean and delicious and never made us sick. I don't know if you can get it in your area.
Margaret

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Wasn't Perrier or something found to be basically filling their water from taps?

If you think about it, I can sell tap water as "glacier water" without fear of false advertising. Some percentage of that water did indeed start life on a glacier. I make no claims how much of the water is glacier water. But rest assured among the rain water, the water that came from cat urine, etc. is some genuine glacier water.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

plattwaz · Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Location: <Write something dumb here>

You could also ask a foreign teacher or secretary at your place of employment to arrange it for you -- essentially the same kind of person taht you might ask to phone and arrange cable TV hookup or that sort of thing.

There are a few different companies that do it - I know Woongjin Coway is one.

As your place of employment most likely has bottled water delivery, they would probably find it easy to phone their rep and have a tank put into your house with weekly water delivery. I don't know if it would be affordable or not, as I think there are minimum weekly/monthly amounts as well as set days/times that you have it arrive.

But that would be where I would start.

Alternatively, Sam-da-su water is fine bottled water. As long as the cap on the bottle is sealed then it's not tap water. 1000 won for a 2L bottle at a convenience store, much cheaper if you buy it in 6 packs at a larger store like EMart

peppermint · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:22 am Post subject:

I get water delivered from Pulmone every couple of weeks and haven't had a problem. it costs 5,000W and I just call the guy within semi regular working hours and he comes with the water (maybe he's being extra nice to the whitey though)

I'd give you a number, but the only ones I have are for my local guy- not the company itself