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[Cymro]

My K-girl is the same. In bed in front of the heater covered in all my blankets and wearing all her clothes, including her winter jacket.

I try to explain to her that the best way is to get naked and hug to share body heat, but she doesn't fall for it.

We were laying on a beach in Thailand in the middle of the day in the middle of last summer. Of course, she said she was cold.

[Harpeau]

Same here. I try to encourage my wife to wear Land's End Thermal nuclear long underwear and sweaters. I find it really dry in the winter and turn onthe humidifier. She tells me that the humid air that it creats feels cold. I don't know how she would ever handle winter without undol.

[casey's moon]

[Daechidong Waygookin]

How about the teacher I share the office with? Im freaking freezing, got two heaters on but they arent helping and she opens the windows. How bout that?

[mindmetoo]

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[Corporal]

My hands are always freezing. The Korean girls I know (co-workers) are constantly opening the window and sit there right beside it.

[fruitcake]

they seem to equate rain with snow, for in the fall (around october) when the temperature drops to a chilly 20 degrees celcius, the heat kicks on. Any day with rain turned my apartment into a sauna.

Now that it's actually cold outside, I'm finding it freezing in here. This is probably due to my neighbor hitting "����" on the boiler when they leave (we share one for our floor). Guess I'd better leave a note.

[d503]

Can I express my sheer love of the cold. I love it, I live for it. I have been wandering around for the last 3 months going, did they all lie to me, does Korea really not have winter, will it forever be stuck in this mid season passive state. And today I experienced sheer winter bliss...true it isn't cold like I am used to, but at least I needed my coat.

Also do you think that if we all gathered together at a subway stop and started chanting turn off the heat they would get the idea.

[dutchman]

[casey's moon]

[djbackdoor]

Nope, you're all wrong. Koreans feel the cold more than Europeans. Actually, I suspect that it's something particular to all people with Central Asian bloodlines. Turks carry on the same way in winter and if Uzbeks started speaking Korean, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart from they way they react to the cold (or any other aspect of their lives for that matter).

[casey's moon]

[chronicpride]

I'm glad that we cleared this up. Now that we've got momentum, let's debunk that whole Korean 'sucking noise through their teeth, when they are thinking' issue. Is this indigenous to Korea, or is there some trace back to Ural-Altaic body language?

[ulsanchris]

i've this problem with my wife. I don't like it much. We've argued a few times about turning on the heat and for the most part she doesn't turn it on too much. At first she wanted to leave it on all night. Now that she sees that our bill is by far the lowest in our building and that our apartment is normally a nice warm temperature and doesnt' need to be as hot as a sauna, she feels good.