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[idonojacs]

The good news: Korea does have electric blankets. I bought one at EMart, but Lotte has them, too.

The bad news: Are they really electric blankets?

They sure seem like blankets, soft and light like Western electric blankets. You plug em in and they warm up. They have a temperature control. If anything, they are too warm. I used mine at the 1.5 setting, out of 10, and was toasty.

But the Korean cords are mighty weird.

Normally, you have the control near you on your night table. You plug the cord for the control into the foot of the blanket, run the cord under the bed and up to the table. Plus you have a fairly long cord coming out of the temperature control box near you on the table that runs to the power outlet.

Well, the Korean ones have a cord about 18 inches long from the controller to the blanket, and a cord about 4 feet long that plugs into the wall.

Think about that. If you try to put the controller next to you on a table, it is going to get tangled up in your arm or head, presuming it is long enough. Or you have to put the controller under your pillow, which would be rather lumpy. But you would still get tangled up in both cords.

So I put it controller at the foot of the bed, and have to leave it set all night, unless I get up to adjust it. And I need an extension cord for the power.

No, it's not a electric floor pad, I presume, as those are thick, stiff and somewhat cushiony.

Is it me, or does this not make sense?

Any suggestions?

[Kimchi Cowboy]

You're right. Electric blankets don't make sense.

[brento1138]

When I was staying in a cabin with my co-workers the other week, they seemed to like the floor heating being cranked. I couldn't understand that... I was near death, dying of heat. So maybe some Koreans just love a sauna like sleep or something. I felt gross and sweaty afterwards...

But with the electric blanket. I had one just like ur talking about. I didn't put it over top of me, but beneath me, on my bed... Because the room I was in was freezing (yeah I lived in a third world house first time I was here) and the sheets overtop would just keep the heat in nicely. I think I had the blanket turned on around 5 or 6 in that freezing room...

[cdninkorea]

What do they cost?

[nobbyken]

Probably designed to go under one of those thin mattress things they use on the floor here.

When I stayed at my brother-in-laws house; I was convinced he was trying to cook me each night, the floor temp was crazy