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[mack the knife]

All the air conditioners have two settings and two settings only: "Off", and "The Day After Tomorrow".

All the heaters have but two settings: "Off", and "Lee Hyo-ri's Crotch".

Koreans just don't get it. Apartments, restaurants, buses, cars, whatever. They just don't understand the concept of temperature control. And they NEVER WILL. I've been here 50 years and have yet to enter one building/vehicle where the concept of temperature control was firmly grasped. That's a major failure of their society, and why they'll never reach the top.

It's time for Heads to Roll.

[eamo]

I completely agree.

For almost four years I've suffered the Koreans inability to work air-conditioners or heaters properly.

Let's think up some historical excuse for this bone-headedness.

[casey's moon]

After two and a half years of being with me, my husband finally gets the concept of temperature control in the car. It used to be full blast heat until nausea set in and then turn it off and open the windows until the ice cream headaches would start and repeat....

[mack the knife]

Because they still can't get it right...

[weatherman]

On an express bus during winter travels, I have a few times taken off my shirt and sat their in my T-shirt because the bus was so hot, while most of the other passengers were still in their winter coats. It crossed my mind to take off my pants too, and sit there in my drawers, but I thought that was going too far.

[coffeeman]

Korea is unreal. I was just in a very hot movie theater this week. I had to take off my sweater halfway into the movie. I just couldn't take it any more. It was like watching a movie in a sauna.

[ajgeddes]

You forgot the famous, turn all the heaters on full blast in the house and open the window during the middle of winter to even it out.

Or the reverse, turn the A/C on full blast and then open the window in the middle of the summer to even it out.

If they would just put 'temperature control' on that stupid university entrance exam, maybe they would learn it. Otherwise, they will never learn.

[snehulak]

How about the trains with that hot bar on the side down by your feet? Too many times I've kicked off my shoes and put my foot on it only to be scalded. It's bad enough that you have to be confronted with that hot, stale kimchi breath when you walk into the train car.

[Hobophobic]

yes...I have even tried teaching WARM and COOL....drawn a thermometer on the board - placed HOT at the top and COLD on the bottom...there really is no WARM/COOL understanding.

..take food for example...they either put your soup in the pits of hell or add ice and serve

[captain kirk]

I know what you mean about the hot bus. I call it 'Korean hot boxing'. I was on the bus (one hour trip) Seoul to Cheonan last week and the busdriver was doing a public service by hotboxing everyone (so they got their money's worth). It struck me then (since I've been in Korea 51 years now and am starting to slightly enjoy it) that the good part of this was that the driver was turning the bus into a sauna. Which had beneficial medicinal effects. Like soothing tired old joints and generally going home to Mama and all good things (like retirement in Florida crammed into one hotbox, one hour, bus ride; only 3,800 won).

And, amazingly, I noted these soothing Turkish baths effects (not fighting it, succumbing to drowsiness like a stunned, geriatric, Persian fatcat) in my T-shirt (having removed sweaters and coat). While other, Korean passengers lay as if dead bundled up in their winter outerwear. Enjoying their deadness in a state of medium broil yet (I checked their brows) not a drop of sweat from their temples.

[SuperFly]