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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: The hottest weather I remember in korea. |
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its burning up out there!!
Really, I've been here 4 years and this is the hottest I remember. steaming!
Wettest i remember was august 2003, rained solid for about 3 weeks.. Coldest, february 2002.
Long timers: would U agree? |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| It's mighty hot, but I think some of the worst (in my area of Kyongbuk) was a dozen or so years ago when it was hot and we had a bad drought. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| I'm just glad I live north in Seoul. I pity the fools who live south. |
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snoopyd
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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long timers some one call??? the hotest was ...1994 May June July, it did not rain for more than 3 months, and it was still so wet, it was the hotest in like 50 years, and I mean HOT ...I was incheon at the time and I have to check my 94 diary for the exact dates but it started rained soot one day ...pollution and heat and wetness it was ...well like hell ..this was my first 3 months in Korea ever, so you can imagine i was like OMG what have I got my self into.... I was getting like 1,000,000 won per month then and no accomodation...  |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| It has been damn hot here lately down in Gumi, near Daegu, which I hear is the hottest place in Korea. Before this year I hadn't been down here in this part of Korea since before 2000, and I recall no heat comparing to this up around Seoul. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| snoopyd wrote: |
| long timers some one call??? the hotest was ...1994 May June July, it did not rain for more than 3 months, and it was still so wet, it was the hotest in like 50 years, and I mean HOT ...I was incheon at the time and I have to check my 94 diary for the exact dates but it started rained soot one day ...pollution and heat and wetness it was ...well like hell ..this was my first 3 months in Korea ever, so you can imagine i was like OMG what have I got my self into.... I was getting like 1,000,000 won per month then and no accomodation... |
That's the one that is forever etched into the souls of all of us who survived it, the one that every subsequent "bad" summer is measured against. My situation wasn't much better than yours from the sound of it.
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I'm just glad I live north in Seoul. I pity the fools who live south. |
 .... Get outta my yard! 
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, Summer of '94 was MUCH worse than this one. It broke all heat records since they'd been keeping them. I'm not dissing this one--misery is misery--but '94 was worse.
I got into a conversation with Kwang-Bok about fried eggs...must have been in reference to "It's so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk"...and in return, he told me that he and his friends refered to girls this way: "Her chest looks like two fried eggs on a cliff". I thought that was a colorful Korean expression. |
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zappalives
Joined: 15 May 2006
Location: Gyeongju
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Back in my hometown of Kansas City, this summer has hit around 105-110 degrees, with humidity equal to or more than what I've seen so far in Bundang, and I've suffered through those Kansas summers my entire life. When I heard people complain about the heat here, I thought I was in for a beating. This is nothing! |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: The hottest weather I remember in korea. |
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| Junior wrote: |
its burning up out there!!
Really, I've been here 4 years and this is the hottest I remember. steaming!
Wettest i remember was august 2003, rained solid for about 3 weeks.. Coldest, february 2002.
Long timers: would U agree? |
I totally agree. I came in Feb 2002 and dang, it was cold.
The heat this year does seem worse as well. I just moved into Seoul proper though so I wasn't sure if that was it. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm so glad to be in the greater Vancouver area of Canada for the worst of this summer. It was really starting to get to me before I left. Now I can actually walk a block without being dripping with sweat. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Yeah, Summer of '94 was MUCH worse than this one. It broke all heat records since they'd been keeping them. I'm not dissing this one--misery is misery--but '94 was worse. |
So did you get a dehumidifier or an A/C? You had to've gotten one by now, there's no way you're managing with just a fan this past week.
There's one room in my home that I've recently christened "The Sweat Lodge". Just one day after that brief but heavy downpour we received, the temperature in there was 32 degrees at one o'clock in the morning with all the windows & a door open and a big fan blowing. |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Haha (hot) ... the summer of '94. Count me as another of the Masters of Bad Timing to hit the ground (griddle) in Korea that summer. Possibly even worse to be in a small town down south, where there was not an air-conditioner anywhere to be found in service or for sale. People were hatching schemes to fill the whole refrigerator with cans of beer so they could take them all out and lay down a "cooling bed"... (okay, made that one up).
Anyway it was hotter than a 2-dollar pistol. No, it was hotter than a stolen 2-dollar pistol! No, wait, that would have to be a stolen 2-dollar pistol firing on automatic! And don't even try telling me there aren't any automatics at 2 bucks, 'coz I was there! |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Make sure everyone to drink lots of water, and don't overexert yourselves.
Mom_*_ |
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snoopyd
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Err off topic?;
wow I never realised that so many on this forum were here since then or back then, where have you been hiding^^ or maybe I know you already^^ I normally just lurk in this forum but since a huge chunk of my friends left last year, my life seems to have gone more and more virtual^^
A few things come to mind reading this thread...
�first the fired eggs and that I should not burst out laughing like that at work again...
The fact that I can now type things like �but it started rained soot one day� means I have been here far too long, not sure what is worse that I typed it, or that people understood it�
and Thirdly I was not as adept at knowing what was going on back in 94, but fan death must have been in the 1,000�s that year!
On topic;
Back in 1994 not many places had A/C, and if they did they would not turn it on due to the cost, fear of causing power outages (we had a few), and general Korean style that "we the people" can handle the heat�
Well I cant handle the heat^^ and thank goodness for airconditioning ..oh horrid memory; reminds me of when the subway only had fans and no A/C...sweat would drip from the roof on to everyone... maybe that is how Porcari Sweat was first made...
*drinks lots of water*
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| numazawa wrote: |
| Haha (hot) ... the summer of '94. Count me as another of the Masters of Bad Timing to hit the ground (griddle) in Korea that summer. |
I'd always assumed you arrived here much more... that you'd only been in Korea for... that... that... (Okay, what's the PC term for "very enlightened newbie"?  )
But no, I was all wrong! By God, we're fellow veterans of the '94 Undressed Rehearsal for Global Warming!
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| Possibly even worse to be in a small town down south, where there was not an air-conditioner anywhere to be found in service or for sale. People were hatching schemes to fill the whole refrigerator with cans of beer so they could take them all out and lay down a "cooling bed"... (okay, made that one up). |
Yes, the Great Heatwave of '94 coincided with the Great Air-Con Famine of that same summer. Times was tough. The papers were reporting record-high incidents of domestic violence, traffic accidents soared because bus & cab drivers hadn't gotten proper rest & were dozing off at the wheel. Fun times! I believe it was the bitter memories of that summer that triggered the introduction of pre-ordering & reserved sales of air conditioners from 1995 onward. Henceforth, you'd have Koreans lining up in the winter to reserve their massive 2-, 3- & 4-million-won Ozone-Depleters for delivery by the summer.
Tricks to staying cool & sane when you don't own an A/C.
My most desperate was to fill the bathtub with water and sleep in it. I even put pillows in there. I'd have to wash them anyway, so what the heck. But I knew it wasn't going to be very comfortable, so I arranged to go out and get stupid-drunk first, then come home & sleep in the tub.
Oh, I managed the get-stupid-drunk part well enough. A little too well, because I woke up the next morning with a sore neck, a raging hangover... and fully clothed & soaked to the bone. Best damn night of sleep I had in nearly a month, though! 
Other tricks: Hang out in bars which had A/Cs every night until you're wobbly & dead tired, then go home and see if you can get to sleep. This practise would sometimes lead to another trick -- get yourself taken home by women who had A/Cs at their place. ("Hi, I'm Jongno. Some heatwave, isn't it? So, um, you got air-conditioning?") And finally, check yourself into a yogwan that had an A/C.
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