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[vexed]

Hey everybody,

I have anoraknophobia and am constantly concerned over the number of spiders in my house/bedroom.

I was wondering what the spider situation was like in Korea... are there many of them that find their way into your room? How big are they in general (do you get the huge ones like in Australia)?

And what's the Korean for 'argh there's a spider! Save me, save me, help!'

[JongnoGuru]

If you'll live in an apartment or "officetel", the only spiders you're likely to see are very very small ones. They're not scary, but scared. If you live in a house, then you'll need a bodyguard.

[Ya-ta Boy]

The spiders that live between the two doors of my elevator and up in the corners of the apt hallway in my building are bigger than a W500 coin. One of them fell off and put a dent in the cement floor.

[Oreovictim]

I don't know, but I've seen some mean-a$$ looking spiders in Jamaica. BTW, don't ever go to Jamaica.

[W.T.Carl]

The BIG green and black jobs are Bananna Spiders. Relatively harmless, or so I am told. However, the black and red centipedes...................

[krats1976]

Spiders here are harmless.

I have several in my apt (only because I live next to a hill in a quasi-countrysid-ish section of Gwangju), and we have an agreement--they stay up in the corner & kill 모기's and I let 'em. If they get in my space, though, they get squished.

[formerflautist]

I have spiders in my place. We've become pals. Well, we were until one of them got too close to my dog. Now I'm kind of waiting for their revenge. I know it's coming. My cat ate a frog a few weeks ago. Now those darn things dive bomb my legs every time I go to the store. It's scary.

[Smee]

I have the occassional daddy-long-legs in my place. In the windows of the rest of the aparment complex there are always spiders hanging around, about the size of a 50 won coin. Around my school, and basically around anywhere else in my tiny town there are some huge spiders. Perhaps they're harmless, but I'm scared of them.

[KumaraKitty]

In 3 1/2 years in Korea, I've never encountered a spider in my living space until last week. Thankfully my Fiance killed it for me, because I am 100% terrified of spiders. I hear that there are more in areas with more farm or mountain land around, but I'm in Bucheon and love the lack of spiders!! That being said, I don't like the lack of birds, plants, butterflies etc that one would normally see back home.

[two roads]

I've had spiders of various shapes and sizes in my apartment. What really scares me, though, is the giant centipedes. Those are just plain EVIL. I got bit by one once, about half a foot long, or so. I was sicker than I'd ever been in my entire life for about 24hrs. Watch out for those, definitely.

[xtchr]

[vexed]

Thanks for the info guys.

Think I'll invest in a spider catcher, just in case. My problem is, even though I'm scared of spiders, I can never bring myself to kill them.