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PeterDragon
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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Welcome to Seoul! I might suggest that you find a place as close as possible to Namsan Park. Being near the trees and parkrim roadway might be a good idea. The air in central Seoul is not the best. The main thing is tot ry to avoid mold and get a place with good air circulation.
In addition, regularly going to the saunas and detoxing can be helpful in cleaning out your skin and lungs. It's served me well.
Wish you the best! |
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teacherbunny
Joined: 25 Aug 2010
Location: Seoul
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nansam, yeouido tueksom gwanak..anywhere in seoul near the river or near the mountains will have better air quality..also there is seoul forest..
Take a walk and find the places that you can breathe well in and consider those places when you are looking to move |
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augustine
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Location: México
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| Agree with Harpeau that if you can get a place near Namsan it's probably the best air quality you'll find in the city, from what I've been told. I always get a great breeze rolling through when I open my two balcony doors and all of the windows, and allow all my neighbors watch me prance around naked, and I've been told it's extremely refreshing up here. But, I can't really tell the difference, as I'm an idiot who smokes and therefore can't smell anything since my system is always being raped by toxins. |
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PeterDragon
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Too bad you're stuck on Seoul. NE coast two hours away has almost pristine air. |
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PeterDragon
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Gnawbert
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| I lived in HBC briefly. That sour rag smell was everywhere. Drove me nuts. Others didn't seem to mind, but to me it ruined it. The air's much better south of the Han. Yangjae seems good, I go to the flower market/Costco there quite a bit and don't notice a problem. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| PeterDragon wrote: |
"gwanak..anywhere in seoul near the river or near the mountains will have better air quality..also there is seoul forest.."
It's actually worth noting that I am in Gwanak, and I scale Gwanak mountain (25 minutes walk form my house) for two hours or so every day as my form of detox. I'm suspecting one of two things:
A) Seoul's best is still bad for me
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B) My house/block itself is the problem, and I might be fine somewhere else... Not sure what to do, although I have been offered a decent FT job in Gyongnam |
You might want to try getting as many of these three plants as possible, NASA's recommended three for fresh air inside one's apartment:
http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air.html
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The three plants are Areca palm, Mother-in-Law's Tongue and money plant. The botanical names are in front of you. Areca palm is a plant which removes CO2 and converts it into oxygen. We need four shoulder-high plants per person, and in terms of plant care, we need to wipe the leaves every day in Delhi, and perhaps once a week in cleaner-air cities. We had to grow them in vermi manure, which is sterile, or hydroponics, and take them outdoors every three to four months. The second plant is Mother-in-law's Tongue, which is again a very common plant, and we call it a bedroom plant, because it converts CO2 into oxygen at night. And we need six to eight waist-high plants per person. The third plant is money plant, and this is again a very common plant; preferably grows in hydroponics. And this particular plant removes formaldehydes and other volatile chemicals.
With these three plants, you can grow all the fresh air you need. In fact, you could be in a bottle with a cap on top, and you would not die at all, and you would not need any fresh air. We have tried these plants at our own building in Delhi, which is a 50,000-square-feet, 20-year-old building. And it has close to 1,200 such plants for 300 occupants. Our studies have found that there is a 42 percent probability of one's blood oxygen going up by one percent if one stays indoors in this building for 10 hours. The government of India has discovered or published a study to show that this is the healthiest building in New Delhi. And the study showed that, compared to other buildings, there is a reduced incidence of eye irritation by 52 percent, respiratory systems by 34 percent, headaches by 24 percent, lung impairment by 12 percent and asthma by nine percent. And this study has been published on September 8, 2008, and it's available on the government of India website. |
Six to eight waist-high plants per person is of course a tall order, but whatever you can get of each should improve the air quality where you live. |
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