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[april]

I have just arrived and I find this whole showering right next to the toilet rather bizarre. And disgusting. There is just no relaxing and having a nice shower because you are always trying to watch out for water getting everywhere. Especially in the apartment I have just moved into and the previous tenant had a disgusting plunger - not something I want nearby while I am showering.

[pkang0202]

Getting water everywhere is what makes Korean bathrooms awesome. Do you know how easy it is to clean the bathroom when you can just hose everything down after you've scrubbed?

I think maybe you have a tiny bathroom. My bathroom is big enough where I can shower and not have any of the water go near the toilet.

See if you can buy a shower head holder and put it on a different place in the bathroom wall where the stream won't be going towards the toilet.

[morrisonhotel]

Different strokes and all that. I love Korean bathrooms. It's probably my favourite thing about my apartment.

[Joe Boxer]

I thought this thread was going to be about the disgusting public bathrooms. For many restaurants, you have to actually leave the building to use the bathroom. These are usually filthy, shared by both sexes, often don't have soap, and usually have no hot water! If you're lucky there's toilet paper. And if you're unlucky, there's a dsgusting trash can beside the disgusting toilet (or squatter!) full of sh*tty toilet paper.

Ugh. Nine years+, and I still get disgusted by this. Even worse are the restaurant staff that use these facilities, and DON'T WASH THEIR HANDS.

[rumdiary]

Think of all the money you'll save on toilet paper by hosing off your arse.

[AsiaESLbound]

Right, it's OK to get water all over the place, except the electrical outlet offering a shockingly 230 volts of death. You'll notice your bathroom is designed like a shower stall where it's sealed tile with buildings usually being water tight fire proof concrete. No need to worry about leaking water to your neighbors below you and your cigarette smoking neighborhood drunks burning you out of your livelihood as they can only burn down their apartment. Just spray bleach water, scrub, and shower it all down when finished. Close your door when showering and open your window to air it all out. Your land lady is probably entering your apartment every day to check that you have your only window open as to prevent mold that will make you sick and ruin her apartment.

You'll quickly notice when Winter comes, you will freeze your tail off when going potty first thing in the morning and showering as the bathroom isn't heated and you'll get electrocuted if using a space heater in there. That is the raw fact of these bathrooms in the Winter. The building constructions seem to be more fit for a tropical climate. Especially so for public schools and other older places. As for public restrooms, it's always so wet, stinky, lacking toilet tissue in the stalls, often lacking soap if a blue mystery bar isn't attached to a fixture, and your clothes serve as hand drying towel. Now if only my neighbors toilet water rushing down this pipe didn't make so much noise and their darned washing machine water didn't go into my veranda floor due to duct taped together plumbing. I hate having neighbors on top of me.

[Senior]

I like the K style bathroom. It ModEdit me to look over and realise that I'm showering with the washing machine plugged in, though. Is it best to pull the plug whilst wet and standing in water? Or best just to leave it?


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[Mariella713]

I think it's nasty too. Don't know why to be honest, because I'm not a hygiene freak at all.

[Cerulean]

I like the bathrooms here because they are so easy to clean. If I could build my bathrooms like this back home I would. You know, in the perfect house day dreaming.

[Ralphie]

I like the bathrooms here and would build one in Canada, too, if I could. It just makes sense that in a room where surfaces and floors will get wet there is a drain in the floor... Very convenient and easy to hose down the entire room after I finish showering (there aren't any electrical sockets in the bathroom at my current place). The fact that it's small makes it even better and faster to clean up. After seeing and smelling the outdoor pit toilets in rural China and Malaysian refugee camps, Korean public bathrooms are tame.

[sesyeux]

so good, i just sit down on the toilet lid when i'm tired or hungover in the morning and have a relaxing shower, whats not to like

[the_beaver]

Korean bathrooms are great. I can shower and shave at the same time, pause for a dump (and use the shower as a bidet widget), wash down the walls, and I have plenty of space to move around when showering.

[dewoo]

from my first trip to Korea in 2001 I remember the utterly filthy public bathrooms. But in a strange way I didn't mind them. Then in 07 on my return I saw how so much had changed. I saw how bathrooms were now very western in style and generally cleaner. Seemed to me that some of the charm and character had been lost

[kinerry]

I like the part where mold grows everywhere because the bathroom is constantly wet and warm...

[ChilgokBlackHole]