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[I_Am_Wrong]

Does anyone know where I can get a large number of earplugs in bulk? Like a bag of 100 or something?

[captain kirk]

Yeah, the tool street in your city. Where the tools hang out. And among those shops there'll be a safety shop. Sells industrial safety equipment.

Earplugs AND those shooter's/jackhammer sound earmuffs. The kind ground crew at airports wear. Overkill? What?

[Homer]

nawww.

Our place is pretty quiet at night all you hear is the ocean and the usual city background buzz which I am used to anyway.

Well our place was quiet until we had our son!

[Ilsanman]

No I don't. Thanks for the good idea.

[coffeeman]

Earplugs also come in handy sometimes when you sleep at Motels and those Jimjilbang places (public baths). One weekend I was feeling cheap and stayed at Jimjilbangs two nights in a row. The second place was just horrible! The so-called sleeping room was next to the recreation room which served beer and had many boisterous people and a TV blasting at full volume throughout the night. The earplugs plus a strong will to sleep got me through the night. Honestly, I don't know how I pulled that off.

[Troll_Bait]

[newinseoul]

Ahh for the love of earplugs! I sleep every night with earplugs on. Not because it is so loud in my apartment but, I hate any type of background noise. I also sleep way more soundly with them on. I found some (pink funny looking ones) in a pharmacy in central city mall near the foodcourt. Although, it is hard to find smaller foamy ones that I get my mom to send me in bulk from Canada. They are dam hard to find here.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I have to say, I'm a bit surprised at the results of this poll so far.

Sparkles*_*

[captain kirk]

If you're in Seoul the tool area is near Chongno Sam Ga. When you're at the subway station there look on the wall exits map and take the exit that goes towards that new canal, Chung-geh-chon or whatever it's called, for pedestrians.

Half a block that way, moving away from the cinemas corner, it turns into tool shops. And when you get to the canal it continues past the canal going the same direction for half a block. There are also tool shops along the canal there. Finest axes from Finland and a shop that has a million kinds of glue. Car and motorcycle batteries and chargers. Paint, lacquers, motorcycle aerosol chain lube, handtools up the yingyang, etc...

[poker player]

Fortunately I don't need them where I live but even if it was noisy I wouldn't wear them because of what a fireman friend told me. He said that occasionally they would find people still in bed who didn't make it out of burning buildings alive or were seriously burned were wearing earplugs.
This is off topic but he also told me when he worked on the harbour fire boat in Vancouver that many male drowning victims who fell off boats were found to have their flys open when their bodies were recovered. As he said, when urinating off a boat, one hand for the rail and one hand for the pole.

[sadsac]

I think the ambient background noise is actually soothing. I'd miss it if it wasn't there.

[uberscheisse]

[Mr. Pink]

Wife snoring = need earplugs or a divorce.

As for where to buy them, I buy the orange 3M ones in stationary shops. Usually buy them in a package of 6 (3 pairs) for like 1k won or so. Usually I clean the shop out when I go.

It is addictive now. I need them to fall asleep...gonna suck untraining that habbit

[Dev]

What's funny is that it's not only westerners that wear them, but Koreans too.
As my students were studying for mid-terms, I bumped into a student in the school yard. She has a package that said 3M on it. I was curious to what it was and it turned out to be a package of earplugs. Imagine needing earplugs to study at school. Noise is everywhere here! Seems to be a problem that people just try to ignore.

[eamo]