Korean Job Discussion Forums

[t-hype]

Thanks to all the non-Grumpy Guses who replied!

And super thanks to you spliff for the link. I love IKEA's home stuff!!! I am already comforted. Now I just have to decide whether or not to bring my collection of comforters...

[cheeseface]

[sojusucks]

I bought a "sheet" in Korea that is essentially a cover with a zipper. I couldn't find a sheet to actually cover up with (and yeah, it is a little scratchy).

Bedding is not cheap here either. I have seen "sheets" for about 30,000 Won and up. Blankets were about 50,000 Won and up. Of course, better prices could exist.

[moosehead]

go to Namdaemun market to buy comforters - you can find very nice silk ones that are ultra warm in winter for 50,000 and up -

the quilted thick stiff "blankets" are meant to go on top of the mattress - over the fitted cover - which is NOT a sheet as I think some folks are using it as - and hence swearing there are fitted sheets here (either they aren't really westerners or they've never bought linens before and simply don't know the difference) - those fitted covers are actually MATTRESS COVERS - they are meant to protect your mattress from stains such as - well you know -

(fyi, K doesn't grow cotton and doesn't like to import it hence the scarcity of cotton goods and the high price they command)

so here's how it works:

1) you put the fitted mattress cover on first

2) next the stiff quilted cover which is just the width of your bed

3) over all that goes the fitted sheet

4) then your top sheet

5) then your blanket or comforter, etc.

now when you wash, you don't have to wash numbers (1) and (2) as often as the sheets, but of course they should be washed maybe once a month or so.

pillows are another matter and much more of personal taste

but of course they should match your covers and the underlying fitted covers!!

sweet dreams

[Rumple]

I just bought some really comfortable linens from the Westin. They sold me two new queen flat sheets and four pillowcases for 72,000 won.

If you know how to fold a hospital corner (look online if you don't), you can make a flat sheet work as well as a fitted one. I prefer a fitted sheet too, but I'll make do with a flat one until such time as I can get a Westin fitted sheet from my home country sent to me.

I love the Heavenly Bed!

[ernie]

i had no trouble finding fitted sheets, pillowcases and blankets / comforters. my problem is with the flat sheets - they aren't long enough! if i tuck it under the foot end of the mattress, it barely makes it halfway up the bed! definitely bring a simple flat sheet from home.

[Starla]

Okay, for all this talk about sheets and beds, what size are beds usually...twin or full/queen? It's useless to bring a fitted sheet if it's the wrong size. And I'm just bringing mine along because I like my sheet sets...not because people on here are saying I won't be able to find them.

[pkang0202]

Beds are usually Super Singles.

[blade]

I saw nice (queen sized) satin sheets at Cosco in Daejeon for about 90,000 last weekend.

[Starla]

[Rumple]

[sistersarah]

Get a Korean coworker or friend to order you cotton fitted sheets from gmarket. Mine are great. 25,000 won for a good fitted queen sheet no different than home and two pillow cases.

[Starla]

[Weigookin74]

[CentralCali]

I learned something during a month-long hospital stay in Korea. You don't need a fitted sheet for the bottom sheet. Do as the nurses did: spread the bottom sheet over the bed and tie the corners under the bed. It takes almost no time at all and has the added advantage of not being practically impossible to fold like the western fitted sheets with the elastic. When I was discharged from the hospital, I immediately started tying my sheets the way the nurses did. My reaction: "They're geniuses!"