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[kenglish]

i got a grandma living downstairs from me whose apparently hard of hearing- because she has her television volume turned to 11 the whole day every day! walking past her door it's already louder than how i listen to my own t.v.
and inside my apt it sounds like there's a market right outside, after the noise has been echoed through the hallway into an unintelligible garble that's even more annoying than an intelligible one. i already complained to my realtor twice, who undoubtedly conveyed it to the building manager, who i heard talk to the grandma. the problem is, she's not stopping!! i'm guessing that the 'seniority first' attitude of this country has made my message water down into something of a polite suggestion that went unheeded. that or the granny doesn't give a hoots because once again, seniors first. should i take matters into my own hands? can i call the cops? moving out is the last thing i want to do because besides the noisy pollution, i mean when granny has her t.v. off (only when shes sleeping) this place can be the quietest, most quint it can get in middle of seoul.

[Hyeon Een]

Calling your realtor after you've moved in is like calling your recruiter after you've taken a job. Not their problem.

Anyway, you're in luck, there are lots of solutions:
(1) Steal the old lady's TV

(2) Buy her a new hearing aid so she only needs to turn it up to 6 instead of 11

(3) Call her sons and tell them to take her to their fancy apartment in Gangnam to control their wife.

(4) Call her daughters and ask them nicely to make their mother turn the TV down.

(5) Tell her daughters to tell her son to take her or you'll kill her.

(6) Act like a crazy person so much that her family members become terrified that you'll kill her, and so move her out.

(7) Move house.

( Ask nicely that she turn down the TV.

[samcic]

Put on your ipod.

[PigeonFart]

Buy a cheap set of headphones (between 5k and 10k) in your local supermarket.

Google an image of a TV. Paste it onto Word. Overlay a big red circle (like on a no smoking sign). Maybe paste a sad face. Then paste the icon of the headset. Then paste the happy face. Not one word (in English or Korean is necessary). Just icons. Print it out. Deliver it along with the cheap headset.

Anyone (even an elderly person, or at least her realtives) should be able to deduce the meaning of the poster and the headset left outside her door.

[PastorYoon]

You have a noisy neighbor? This is Korea. What are you expecting? Here, I'm dealing with amateur day right out my window. There are people screaming into microphones and probably call it music. There's a little courtyard in front of the E-Mart with some bandstand. They're really screaming now. Yell louder into the mic! Will it really give you extra points for effort? I'm sure she'll post little pictures of her performance on her facebook. So lame. Stop screaming, Koreans!

[kenglish]

haha you guys all sound stressed out. maybe i got it easy. at times like these i do miss being able to call upon LAPD. i bet nypd wouldn't give a crap about noise complaints either.

[lifeinkorea]

Korea? Yea, it might be louder than Japan. However, it's got nothing on China. China is NOISY NOISY NOISY.

[manlyboy]

Earplugs sell fairly well in Korea. My father-in-law owned a stationary store where he sold tons of them. They can be very uncomfortable and disorienting at first, but after a week or two you hardly notice them.

[hondaicivic]

[Adam Carolla]

Ski mask.
Shovel.
Large bag of lye.
Extra strength garbage bags.

[tsteele]

Just knock on her door, and do a terrible job of explaining in English (and pointing) about the Terebi and gesturing to your ears. Do this awkwardly and for more minutes than it should take. Then come back later in the day, and do it again. Then again the following morning. Keep being bad at Korean but simultaneously polite/insistent about turning down the TV.

After a few days of awkward, all will become well.

[Jane]

Ask someone who speaks Korean to come by your place and ask the neighbours if the noise is a problem for them. If so, maybe you can garner some support from neighbours in order to confront the lady.

[freddy teacher]

i asked my gf to write a letter in korean asking my neighbour to be quiet as they were making too much noise. i put it on their door. i didnt think it would work but they kept the volume down thereafter...

[DHC]

Freddy Teacher's is your best bet. No one, including the police, will like it if you call the police. If the old lady ignores your request, get accustomed to it.

[Hokie21]

Does she live directly below you? Because if thats the case I recommend you take up some kind of exercise regime. Something with lots of jumping, like pilates. Either that or start blasting your TV when shes sleeping. Maybe she'll get the point.