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[jzrossef]

Thought it would be pretty important for those planning on staying in Korea for long time. For someone such as myself, I drink a lot of water. Ever since I stop drinking any soft drinks (except for occasional Root Beer at A&W) and I drink almost always water or tea as beverage for my average day.

Our home is fortunate enough to have a pretty good water filtering system, so it's easy for me to simply replenish my water intake from my tap water. Ours filter just about anything except the fluoridation... at least it can handle dechlorination. (Ours is about 0.4-0.7%-ish) It was pretty expensive to do it here, and knowing extensive water filter for tab water isn�t common in Korea, my guess is that it�s pretty expensive there as well. (And that�s assuming that they live upto their advertisement... a lot of ifs already)

I hear that water cooler is an option, and I�ve seen some in Korean tutoring places. (I used to work in places like that for few years) Not sure if that�s just another illusion that we North Americans often live with many of our bottle water.


Any experience with this in Korea?

BTW, no water fluoridation in Japan. Sigh~

[crossmr]

Water quality is fine depending on where you live and the age of your building. A couple days after I moved in, someone from the city came by and tested my water out of the blue. It was safe.
I use a Britta and haven't had any issues.

[da_moler]

[crossmr]

[toonchoon]

water is safe, but nobody drinks it out of habit since they had to boil it to kill the bacteria some 10 years ago.

apparently Seoul's water meets/exceeds USA standards for bottled water. sorry - no link to that story. been a few years.

drink up.

[CrikeyKorea]

most piping for housing is perfectly safe to drink from, the pipes leading to the house however.... someone should come to your house or already has to check it-my house is safe for drinking, but the water at my office has to be boiled.

[ATM SPIDERTAO]

water is dirt cheap in korea. like 300won or 30 cents for a bottle at any convenience store

buy a filtering system. they're prolly a few hundred bucks or you can lease/rent one for the year. and they have the hot water option. i personally don't use it, i almost don't any water at home anyway haha but when my gf comes over and wants water, i have a 60 cent, 2 litre bottle of water in my fridge. something about drinking warm tap water doesn't sit well with me lol

[Los Angeloser]

[DeMayonnaise]

[jzrossef]

[hallazgo]

My building is six years old and I drink straight out of the tap. Never gotten sick.

My philosophy is that if you do intake a few bad things that your immune system stays on its toes. So when you do consume something nasty your system doesn't go into shock having never seen anything bad. It's like exercise for your lymphatic system. You exercise your muscles (or should) and your cardiovascular sytem, so why not give your immune system a workout, too.

[jzrossef]