Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Whistleblower]

Think yourselves lucky. I have to pay through the nose here in the UK. I'd jump at the chance to return to Korea but I have to wait for the right time.

[johnnyrook]

[chrisinkorea2011]

wow you guys must abuse the hell out of your electricity lol

my bill is never more than 15000 a month and usually about 6 - 8000. Keep in mind i live in a small 1 room studio BUT i always unplug things before i go to work and plug them in after i come home. Seems odd right? well it actually helps according to electric studies blah blah lol i do know that even with my AC cranked up to 16 in the summer, it was always about 17000 lol

[Reggie]

My last bill was 5,970 for 38 kWh.

[Adventurer]

I remember when I lived in Cheonan ages ago and my bills were so low, and, then when I moved to an officetel not long after my bills were like 3 times the amount. I wondered why.

[Reggie]

My electric bills were much higher in an officetel five years ago. From what I was told, the total usage was split evenly among each apartment on the same floor. I didn't turn on the heat all year, but the bills still spiked in the winter. This year, I'm looking at 5,970 give or take 1,000 every month since I'm only accountable for my own electrical usage. I don't even have an air conditioning unit (except in my contract), so it will be low in the summer.

[PeteJB]

So if Officetels are flagged as business rates, would that mean regular Apartments are cheaper? And I mean real APTS, not boxes.

[highstreet]

[nstick13]

I think they had signs up about this in the elevator in my building. Basically, the higher your consumption goes, the higher the price per kwh is.

I don't know the exact rates, but I'll lay out this chart with fictional ones just go show the concept I'm talking about.

0-100 kwh = 700 KRW/kwh
100-200 kwh = 1000 KRW/kwh
200-300 kwh = 1500 KRW/kwh

This is all reasonable inference based on the little Korean I know and a similar looking table on those signs. Makes sense, though. Good incentive to use less.

[spicy]

maybe try teaching koreans that it might be a better idea to try closing the doors/windows for once instead of using them to try and mediate an A/C stuck on max-cold or an ondol set at 75*.

it's hilarious how, rather than modulate whatever is being used to regulate the heat (AC in summer, ondol in winter), they just open a window and leave everything at 100%.

[hagwonnewbie]

OK, there was notice in my office tel.

Electric bills averaging 70,000 won will increase to at least 500,000 won starting in December.

Lucky for me, I'm gone in a couple weeks.

Sayonara, suckers........

[Airborne9]

[hagwonnewbie]

Well, I don't know anyone who uses 70k won of electric in their apartment in the winter. Mine is usually 10 or 15k except for summer.

My co-worker's electric was about 250k for his 1 bedroom officetel last month. He was pretty upset about it.

[furtakk]

[nathanrutledge]