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Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

Does anyone else think the heating on the subway is cranked up far too high? It's minus 2 outside, and 30 plus degrees inside. It makes me feel sick.

Curious_george · Joined: 25 Aug 2006

Keeps my butt warm, thats all that counts, really..

michinkorea · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Yes, the bus too! It's rediculous. You freeze to death on the bus in the summer and now you die of heat in the winter!

seoulsucker · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

Yet another example of Korea's institutionalized inability to grasp the concepts of efficient and comfortable HVAC.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

I take the bus to and from work everyday. I have to bundle up like crazy to wait for the bus. Then I have to strip down as fast as I can once on the bus before i pass out. Then bundle up again to get off the bus. Of coursse there is no heat at school, so I stay bundled up for the next 8 hours before getting on the bus again. ITs completely nutty. I reall ydon't understand it because when you go shopping, every store is about 40 degrees and I am sweating buying milk!

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

brianthestrider · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Location: Seoul

Yeah it's a bit weird - I can identify with the sweating in shps - thought it was just coz I was getting staed at and didn't know what anything was, lol.. But in saying that - I'd much rather have it too hot than too cold..

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

You know it's going to be hot on the bus/subway and freezing cold at work. It stinks. Layer.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

It's exactly the same in a middle school teachers' room.

You get to school when on some mornings it's -10c or less, and that heat in that room feels great for all of 10 seconds. Then you're sweating your bollocks off.

And then, when I take my coat off, I get "not cold?"

Get the *beep* outta here already buddy.

Koreans are babies. They're terrified of a bit of cold and look like they've got 12 hours left to live when they've got a sniffle.

Honestly - they're a disgrace.

was it really -2c this morning by the way? Felt mild to me. The previous two days were freezing, mind you.

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Spin,

Couldn't agree more.

I open the windows at school and tell them to do some starjumps.

It's a mollycoddled culture.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: Heating on the subway

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Koreans love to "beat" the weather. When it's cold, heat to the max. When it's hot, air-con to the max. I think it's just simplistic thinking.

An interesting thing I noticed.....

.....My Korean wife was unaware that the air-con level in the car could be adjusted by the temperature knob so that it doesn't just blow fully cold. When adjusted correctly you can have the vents blow air at a constant and comfortable temperature. Then, when riding up front with my wife's brother during the Summer, I noticed he didn't use the temperature knob either. He just turned on the air-con until the car became too cold then turned it off until the car became too hot and so on and so on....... I wonder how many Koreans are unaware that a medium temperature of air can be achieved?

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

Wow EAMO, thats just incredible. I sometimes forget that they are really country bumpkins who have just gotten used to technology in the last few decades. But it still drives me crazy!

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib