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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| got my bill for July yesterday. I'm in a 3 bedroom 24평 apartment and I run the a/c about 16 hours a day. My total was 67,000. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsista wrote: |
First of all...dryers  ! I really thought only the president and his entourage had them. |
 The combo machines are readily available & dropping in price all the time (mine was 670,000... down from 800,000 when I was looking last year).
Most Koreans simply don't use them... even if they do have them.
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| got my bill for July yesterday. I'm in a 3 bedroom 24평 apartment and I run the a/c about 16 hours a day. My total was 67,000. |
How'd you manage that? |
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Gardimus
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
Location: Formerly Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Our last two bills have been over 100 000won. There are three of us and we do not have AC. The electric company says there is no problem with our meter but I swear somebody is jumping on our electricity. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Gardimus wrote: |
| Our last two bills have been over 100 000won. There are three of us and we do not have AC. The electric company says there is no problem with our meter but I swear somebody is jumping on our electricity. |
Wait, so you have to share an apartment, AND you don't have A/C? Ouch.  |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Nothing.... I don't pay for my electricity. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Gardimus wrote: |
| Our last two bills have been over 100 000won. There are three of us and we do not have AC. The electric company says there is no problem with our meter but I swear somebody is jumping on our electricity. |
That sounds wrong. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Gardimus wrote: |
| Our last two bills have been over 100 000won. There are three of us and we do not have AC. The electric company says there is no problem with our meter but I swear somebody is jumping on our electricity. |
That sounds wrong. |
Yeah. Compare with neighbours. How many fridges? Just one, probably.
Every now & then you'll see on the news some resident, typically it's some old granny who lives alone, who's getting like 95k won water bills every month for half a year. I mean, she'd have to be flooding her own home to get a bill that high. So the TV news crew goes over and interviews the old lady, camera zooms in on all these outrageous bills she's saved, they talk to her neighbours, her daughter comes over, they talk to the apartment management office, the automatons at the water utliity, they have someone inspect the meter -- still no idea what's causing it, but the lady's gotta pay! "The bill's the bill and it says 95k for this month. Now fork it over, Granny!  " I tell ya, this stuff is fairly common in Korea. |
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braunshade
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Location: Somewhere better!
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| 59,000 won- one room apartment. Aircon is on around 12 hours a day. I checked my neighbors bills to.........and theirs were all less thn 15,000! WTF??! |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| 59,000 won- one room apartment. Aircon is on around 12 hours a day. I checked my neighbors bills to.........and theirs were all less thn 15,000! WTF??! |
If your neighbours are like most Koreans (I'm guessing they are) they don't turn on the AC as soon as most foreigners and have them set much higher. I hear some foreigners bragging about having their rooms at 18. Compare that with the 25-28 Koreans generally like and multiply by 12 hours a day and that may be your answer. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| pegpig wrote: |
| braunshade wrote: |
| 59,000 won- one room apartment. Aircon is on around 12 hours a day. I checked my neighbors bills to.........and theirs were all less thn 15,000! WTF??! |
If your neighbours are like most Koreans (I'm guessing they are) they don't turn on the AC as soon as most foreigners and have them set much higher. I hear some foreigners bragging about having their rooms at 18. Compare that with the 25-28 Koreans generally like and multiply by 12 hours a day and that may be your answer. |
So right about everything -- Koreans enduring high temps, turning on the A/C less frequently than big-noses, big-noses killing the planet with their icebox climate demands. But my question is, most big-noses' houses are empty for more hours during the day than Korean homes. Koreans have spouses, Koreans have children, Koreans have maids and butlers and chauffeurs. Big-nose has only his/her big nose, and they carry that nose around with them all day -- nobody's home cranking the A/C. So why, damnit, why should big-noses be getting higher power bills? What freaky electric-grid-taxing antics are these big-noses getting up to during their relatively fewer hours they spend at home? Makes no sense. |
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pegpig
Joined: 10 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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| The braun one is living in a 1 bedroom and I'm guessing so are his neighbours. That means they're single and maybe working which means spending the WHOLE day outside. When they get back after a full day of work and a mandatory soju evening it's cooler (under 30) and they might not even use the AC at all. Whitey/Brauny works 6 hours (no more or else they have the Grottoesque one on their tails) and some even run the AC when they're not at home. |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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hmm...tho i'm not in korea i'm nervously awaiting my electric bill.
i've been using the ac every night, and it doesn't even cool off the whole place.
it's so friggin hot that as soon as i turn it off it goes back to being nasty humid and crap.
but that's how we roll in hiroshima. gansta style...giant roach style *shudders* |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| Our electricity bill this last month was 167,000 won. We're in a 33 pyong villa and the air-con is on a lot~ along with the air purifyer (ionizer), toaster oven, computer, sterio, coffee maker, TV, etc. We've kept the air-con at about 16 celsius. It's a free country, but we're paying for it! |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| When I lived in North Carolina in a normal-sized 1-bedroom apartment, I ran the a/c 24 hours a day. Why? Because I'm American and I like to waste energy. Anyway, my bill was never higher than $60. And that was central a/c, not some box on the wall that works its little heart out just to keep one half of the room cold, the other warm. Those damn Americans. They have too much powa! |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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Last month's bill was low, comparing to what it could've been - it was 110,000 won. We have a four bedroom, 50pyong flat. One main aircon that gets turned on as soon as we come home, and a bedroom one that sometimes gets turned on simultaneously when Letty has her afternoon nap and at bed time.
Last year our bill was consistently over 200,000 won for a couple of months. |
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