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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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I lease a Coway watercooler/icemaker which has lovely twinkly lights for 45,000 per month. It does some kind of mega-super 4-phase filtration process on the mains water.
Get this. It's actual cost if you buy it? 2,300,000!!! For a watercooler??!!! |
pays 45$ a month for WATER and still thinks he's getting a GREAT DEAL.
you got SOLD! one born every minute.... |
We're pretty happy with it. Instant hot and cold water. Icemaker. 45,000 is easily affordable for us. Maybe not for you.
It was actually a safety issue as we have a 2 year old girl. Let me explain.
We traded in our old water cooler which used the jugs for this one which does different kinds of filtration on the advice of one of my Korean neighbors who I hang out with sometimes.
He's a CEO of a landfill engineering company who get hired by the government to design modern and safer landfill solutions......anyway, he was shocked to see how hastily all the livestock was buried last year after the foot and mouth outbreak. Millions of pigs and cows were just thrown in pits and covered up. My friend says that it's inevitable that those pits, which have hundreds of animal corpses each and are dotted all around the country, will sooner or later leach into the water supply.......and the process was accelerated by the very heavy rain this Summer.
Long story short, the water all over Korea, tap water and bottled, can't be trusted........... |
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rainism
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Don't drink the tap water. You never know what will happen to you later in life if you do.
People who say they had no problems aren't 60 years old and trying to hold on to life.
20-year-old smokers say smoking doesn't cause them any problems. |
actually you do know what happens to people who drink tapwater (at least in North America)
do your parents much less grandparents have tap water related drinking problems? What do you think they were drinking before they brainwashed the idiot masses to buy bottled water? (which is the same as tapwater except you're stupid enough to pay for it and pollute the environment with the plastic bottle) |
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isisaredead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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wow, there's so much negativity in this thread.
isn't it a simple matter of the pipes here in korea? it's not to do with bacteria - it's the fact that the pipes dump heavy metals into the same water we "idiots" choose not to drink out of the tap.
whatever, do what you want. just don't call me a "brainwashed idiot" for not drinking tap water in korea of all places.
jesus christ. |
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tortugaverde
Joined: 14 Aug 2011
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| ChrisLamp wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
I lease a Coway watercooler/icemaker which has lovely twinkly lights for 45,000 per month. It does some kind of mega-super 4-phase filtration process on the mains water.
Get this. It's actual cost if you buy it? 2,300,000!!! For a watercooler??!!! |
pays 45$ a month for WATER and still thinks he's getting a GREAT DEAL.
you got SOLD! one born every minute.... |
We're pretty happy with it. Instant hot and cold water. Icemaker. 45,000 is easily affordable for us. Maybe not for you.
It was actually a safety issue as we have a 2 year old girl. Let me explain.
We traded in our old water cooler which used the jugs for this one which does different kinds of filtration on the advice of one of my Korean neighbors who I hang out with sometimes.
He's a CEO of a landfill engineering company who get hired by the government to design modern and safer landfill solutions......anyway, he was shocked to see how hastily all the livestock was buried last year after the foot and mouth outbreak. Millions of pigs and cows were just thrown in pits and covered up. My friend says that it's inevitable that those pits, which have hundreds of animal corpses each and are dotted all around the country, will sooner or later leach into the water supply.......and the process was accelerated by the very heavy rain this Summer.
Long story short, the water all over Korea, tap water and bottled, can't be trusted........... |
We have kids and do the same thing (my kids are big fans of the twinkly lights  ). 36 dollars is totally worth it for us! |
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mmstyle
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: wherever
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| isisaredead wrote: |
wow, there's so much negativity in this thread.
isn't it a simple matter of the pipes here in korea? it's not to do with bacteria - it's the fact that the pipes dump heavy metals into the same water we "idiots" choose not to drink out of the tap.
whatever, do what you want. just don't call me a "brainwashed idiot" for not drinking tap water in korea of all places.
jesus christ. |
I also thought that the problem in Korean water was due to metals, but have never been able to get a straight answer about this out of any Koreans I ask. Back home, it's tap water all the way. That said, 2 counties next to my old home had a "scare" in the past 2 years. Both were publicly announced as having unsafe tap water (bacterial or something like that). But, that is what happens when countries stop keeping up the infrastructure and bail out banks instead. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| That said, 2 counties next to my old home had a "scare" in the past 2 years. Both were publicly announced as having unsafe tap water (bacterial or something like that). But, that is what happens when countries stop keeping up the infrastructure and bail out banks instead. |
That is why I haven't drunk tap water since the late-90's, no matter where I go. Two times in a span of 3 years that town officials held off on informing the public about bad water for weeks in two different towns in Canada. |
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ChrisLamp
Joined: 27 Jul 2010
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Well, Chris, some of us like having the convenience of cold and hot water, and also don't want to keep maintaining a plastic Brita filter system that takes up space in our fridge (and is way too small for a family who needs more). Not a bad deal for a single person, though.
If you have 3 or more people in your apartment (F2 family, for example), then renting a filtration machine is the way to go, IMHO.
For around 20,000 per month, we got a brand new machine by the Dongyang Magic company, and they come change the filters at no extra expense every 3 months. It has a line that hooks into the tap somehow under the sink. They installed it. I think our contract is 2 or 3 years, though. We are here for the long haul, so we have no problem with this. Not sure if we keep the machine or not, in the end. I really don't care.
We used to do the delivered water bottle thing, and am glad to get away from that for many reasons. The price for this is the same or a little less. The water tastes great, and with our little one, gives us peace of mind.
Call 1544-7784 |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
Well, Chris, some of us like having the convenience of cold and hot water, and also don't want to keep maintaining a plastic Brita filter system that takes up space in our fridge (and is way too small for a family who needs more). Not a bad deal for a single person, though.
If you have 3 or more people in your apartment (F2 family, for example), then renting a filtration machine is the way to go, IMHO.
For around 20,000 per month, we got a brand new machine by the Dongyang Magic company, and they come change the filters at no extra expense every 3 months. It has a line that hooks into the tap somehow under the sink. They installed it. I think our contract is 2 or 3 years, though. We are here for the long haul, so we have no problem with this. Not sure if we keep the machine or not, in the end. I really don't care.
We used to do the delivered water bottle thing, and am glad to get away from that for many reasons. The price for this is the same or a little less. The water tastes great, and with our little one, gives us peace of mind.
Call 1544-7784 |
Right. The jug watercooler we had before had no icemaker (I'm addicted to ice now...ice in everything!!) was costing us around 30,000 per month in refills.....plus it didn't filter so you're depending on the company using good water. No thanks.
We're paying the extra 15,000 for the icemaker and, most of all, for to be sure that we are giving our kid clean water. |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| DaHu wrote: |
Don't drink the tap water. You never know what will happen to you later in life if you do.
People who say they had no problems aren't 60 years old and trying to hold on to life.
20-year-old smokers say smoking doesn't cause them any problems. |
how about those 60 year olds that have been drinking it their whole lives? |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
| (F2 family, for example) |
is this like, some kind of a special family? a code-name for a new type of modern, technologically advanced family or something? i suppose i am missing out on all the new local jargon  |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: drinking water |
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| do you guys just buy bottled water? do people even drink water? i know some people who think water "tastes gross." i saw a brita filter at emart and thinking about getting that instead. |
We bought a Brita Pitcher here and it has served us well so far. It has probably all ready paid for itself in terms of bottled-water savings, and we aren't even through the first filter yet. |
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akcrono
Joined: 11 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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The girl and I use a Britta pitcher, and I highly recommend it. Its a little more expensive than Chris said it was (I'd price it around 10,000 every other month for 2 people), but overall very cheap for clean tasting water.
| toonchoon wrote: |
| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
| (F2 family, for example) |
is this like, some kind of a special family? a code-name for a new type of modern, technologically advanced family or something? i suppose i am missing out on all the new local jargon |
F-2 visa. Usually married (as far as I know) and are not dependent on employment to live here.
| DaHu wrote: |
Don't drink the tap water. You never know what will happen to you later in life if you do.
People who say they had no problems aren't 60 years old and trying to hold on to life.
20-year-old smokers say smoking doesn't cause them any problems. |
This sounds awfully paranoid. Science knows the mechanisms by which smoking kills over the long term. Water is dangerous either do to pathogens or heavy metals. Remove both and you're fine.
FUN FACT: Bottled water has less regulation than tap water. HOORAY!
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Water tastes gross? Hahah. Weird people thinking that.
I drink most water at work and use the tap on mornings and weekends generally. I might get one of those filters eventually, but I'm not terribly good at discerning good- and bad-tasting water. |
it's not you. it's the fact bottled water and tapwater (at least in the US) are nearly identical. Tap water is probably better for your teeth with the fluoride in it.
I remember drinking tap water in Eastern Europe under Communism before the bottled water industry scam truly took off. Not a single problem. Ever.
stupid stupid people. |
The tap water here does taste bad, at least at every place I've tried it. Bottled water is sometimes an excellent solution for someone on the go who doesn't want a sugary drink, especially if it's for an extended period of time. The water here is cheap enough where I wouldn't consider it a scam (the impact on the environment, however, I agree with).
Also, many public water sources are not fluoridated due to fears about the mineral. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:05 am Post subject: |
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The tap water here does taste bad, at least at every place I've tried it. Bottled water is sometimes an excellent solution for someone on the go who doesn't want a sugary drink, especially if it's for an extended period of time. The water here is cheap enough where I wouldn't consider it a scam (the impact on the environment, however, I agree with).
Also, many public water sources are not fluoridated due to fears about the mineral. |
Yeah, that's the main reason I just decided to stop being freaked out over tap water. I easily drink two liters a day, that's a lot of plastic! I try to cut back where I can; for instance, I started reusing my plastic coffee cup for the daily coffee. I change it once a week and drink water when the coffee's done, so it's not super-gross or anything.
I do think tap drinkers should invest in a filter, though. Got to get one if I ever come across them. |
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s.tickbeat
Joined: 21 Feb 2010
Location: Gimhae
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| do your parents much less grandparents have tap water related drinking problems? What do you think they were drinking before they brainwashed the idiot masses to buy bottled water? (which is the same as tapwater except you're stupid enough to pay for it and pollute the environment with the plastic bottle) |
Oh yes, my grandparents had access to only the cleanest, safest of tap water!
That's why there was an awful cholera outbreak in Montreal in the 1930's.
It's why Walkerton has E-Coli up the arse.
Certainly the water in Thunder Bay is safe, despite the heavy metals and nickel tailings in the freshwater sources?
Oh damn. Industrial and household pollution hasn't increased in the past 80 years. Neither have populations or animal waste.
Oh, wait. . . |
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