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ed1980
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Goyang
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 Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:20 am Post subject: hot water bottle |
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can i get one of these anywhere in korea ?
cheers |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| Yeh theyre available. Try a larger drug store. |
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ed1980
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: Goyang
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: cheers |
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| any idea of what it is called in korean ? |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:52 am Post subject: |
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Seen them in E-Mart's Natural and Basic section for 18000won!!
(They're so cheap at home I just had one sent over...)
If you can't find one, you can get a gel-filled hot pack-thing (same size as a hot water bottle) from Watsons (Myeongdong) for about 7000won. You heat them up in the microwave, I think. |
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teachingld2004
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: hot water bottle |
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| This will not stay hot for long, but you can take a small towel, wet it, wring it out, and then pop it in the mircowave. It does work. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| If it's for sleeping you can just put hot water in a 500 mL bottle and it'll stay warm all night. Not hot enough to warp the plastic mind you - about the same as tea with a bit of cold water added. |
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tacon101
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| green tea time bottles and a few others are thicker than normal water bottles...they hold practically boiling water for me |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| My GF gave me a bunch of those gel pack things. They're pretty good. Amazed how long they hold the heat. And they heat up in like 1.5 minutes in the microwave. Forget about burning oodles of expensive gas to boil water. |
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tacon101
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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i have no microwave
i rub some chopsticks together and start a small fire kindled with restaurant flyers to boil mine  |
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canukteacher
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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I bought one last year from a pharmacy that was in the floor below Carrefour. It wasn't very expensive, and the guy understood when I said hot water bottle.
Good luck,
CT |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| One of my students came to school with one once. They are different than what I am used to back home. The ones back home have a sort of screw plug. The ones here require a really strong clip of some sort to hold the water in. Make sure you've got the clip-ee thing, too. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| BigBlackEquus wrote: |
| One of my students came to school with one once. They are different than what I am used to back home. The ones back home have a sort of screw plug. The ones here require a really strong clip of some sort to hold the water in. Make sure you've got the clip-ee thing, too. |
This would not surprise me. Have you ever looked at your washing machine hook up? The simple way to connect a laundry hose to the tap is via a screw and washer female connector. You know like on the end of your garden hose. But no. You screw the hose into this bizarre collar with washers and screws. It reminds me of some sort of Spanish Inquisition era torture device in miniature. And then you screw this strange cone onto your tap. And then you jam the collar as far up the cone as you can and then tighten it with a screw. This all works fine until the water gets really cold in winter and the washers contract a bit. Then your tap starts to drip... |
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Ekuboko
Joined: 22 Dec 2004
Location: ex-Gyeonggi
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| BigBlackEquus wrote: |
| One of my students came to school with one once. They are different than what I am used to back home. The ones back home have a sort of screw plug. The ones here require a really strong clip of some sort to hold the water in. Make sure you've got the clip-ee thing, too. |
The ones at E-Mart are the normal rubber kind with a screw-in stopper at the top. I think the only reason why they're so expensive there is the fancy-schmancy fabric cover. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| In the 5+ years that I have lived here, I honestly have never seen hot water bottle being sold. My sister sent me two from Hong Kong. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| ���� is the Korean word for water bottle. I am not sure where you would find one though. |
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