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[pocariboy73]

What sounds better to you:

One bedroom 11 pyung apartment ?
OR
8 pyung bachelor apartment?

I have no idea in regards to layout or comfortness. Thanks in advance...

[Circus Monkey]

One pyoung = nearly 4 square meters. Sometimes apartments include the area outside your door as part of the individual apartment pyong.

8 or 11 pyong are quite small. The smallest that I've lived in was 13 and I felt like Godzilla stomping around.

CM

[mack the knife]

are you kidding?
NEITHER is the punchline to that joke!!

if you're living in anything smaller than say, 14 pyeong, you're living in a shoe box!!

[Magog]

Try a Goshiwon for 2 years....

[keguri]

If someone referred to an 11 pyong "one-bedroom" apartment, don't think that that means you get a livingroom and a bedroom. It means your one room *is* the bedroom. It's a studio apartment. 8 pyong, well, that's ridiculously small. I think my bathroom here in Boston is bigger than that. Forget about that one. 11 is also really really small, but maybe slightly more tolerable. Do you know if you'll have a private bathroom in your room? That's important too, I think. Good luck.

[weatherman]

If you are living by yourself, then go with the 11 pyung apartment. Then again you might want to check out the neighborhoods both apartments are located in, and see which one you like better. Good luck

[Rand Al Thor]

I lived in a 5 pyoung one room for 18 months... it wasn't so bad, I had a friend wiht a smaller place. I don't understand what the problem is, I lived alone and was hardly home. Only there to sleep and eat breakfast.

Once I got married, I moved into my own place... 15pyoung. It's a little small with a baby, but I will be moving later this year into something alot bigger.

[saw6436]

When calculating the size of your apartment (I can't speak about office-tells or dorm size) you have to remember that both the front entrance of your building and your apartment landing size are included in the contractual size ouf your apartment.
When I first got married my wife and I bought a 2 bedroom, 1 bath14 pyung apartment. Having worked in the building trades for a long time I never fully trusted the size of the apartment in the contract, so I measured the place. Actual apartment size was 10.3 pyung add in the front entrance and landing and you get 14 pyung. At first I thought the owner was trying to cheat us but have since confirmed that that is standard practice. The front entrance size is divided by individual apartments in the building and it is added to the apartment size. Why? I don't know.

[princess]

If a school knows you are coming,why the heck don't they have your place ready? Sounds like jerks to me.

[pocariboy73]

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[pocariboy73]

.........................................sigh

[Canadian Teacher]

One really can't compare Korean apartment sizes to those in Canada or the USA. There simply is not enough space per person to have places the size that we had in Canada.

Far more important in Korea is the condition of the place. It is clean, does the heat and hot water work? Even more important, does it have gas heat? Oil costs a fortune. What is the location like? It it convenient to your work and transportation? Apartment fee?

[guerillera]

Is it pyeong or pyung?

[chemicalblur]

[blackjack]

1 pyeong = 3.3 square meters 8pyeong =26m2 11pyeong =36m2
1 pyeong = 35 square feet 8pyeong =280 F2 11pyeong =385 F2

ask what floor?,
does it have a loft?
how old is the building?
what are the monthly management fees?
when was it last wallpapered? (will they wallpaper it if you are unhappy (ie the walls are yellow from tobacco. smoke)
Is it gas or electric?
Is there room for a ...?
Is it an officetel/apartment/villa?
Does it have aircon? a biggie
does it have a balcony/roof access?

Size is only one of these questions. I have lived in smaller places than the 8 pyeong on, while it does take some getting used to it starts to feel like home after a while