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jman3
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 Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:46 am Post subject: Housing in Korea |
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| I'm moving to Korea to teach and the school is going to furnish me a house. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what they are like. Are they nice? Does anyone have any pics? Thanks. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: Housing in Korea |
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| jman3 wrote: |
| I'm moving to Korea to teach and the school is going to furnish me a house. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what they are like. Are they nice? Does anyone have any pics? Thanks. |
A typical "house" that is supplied by a school/hakwon is usually a one room villa or officetel or a SHARED 2 or 3 bedroom apartment.
It would be a single main room of about 225sq feet - 23 square meters and a utility room and bathroom. Total size would be in the range of 30 sq. meters (5m x 6m) or 300 sq feet.
It would typically have a small kitchette type counter with countertop 2 burner gas range, fridge, and sink on one wall. Your bed will be along another wall. Your clothes cupboard and tv unit on the 3rd wall.
It will probably have a small veranda or utility room that houses your clothes washer and a small bathroom with western style toilet and shower head attached to the wall.
In North America it would be typically called a bachelor suite. Another way to describe it would be similar to a north American style kitchenette type motel room.
If you get a shared type apartment, they are usually very similar to a North American 2 or 3 bedroom apartment. |
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plattwaz
Joined: 08 Apr 2005
Location: <Write something dumb here>
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| Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: Housing in Korea |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
It would be a single main room of about 225sq feet - 23 square meters and a utility room and bathroom. Total size would be in the range of 30 sq. meters (5m x 6m) or 300 sq feet.
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That's only 10 pyong!!!! Even when my academy in Apgujeong got the teachers the tiniest villas known to man, they were still 13-14 pyong.
If a school is only providing you with 10 pyong, you're going to have a rough year of it.
Anyway, that is a very good description of what an apartment is like -- a small hotel room. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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10 pyeong was standard a couple of years ago
certainly a lot of eslers have lived in them
have one-room places really gotten much bigger for eslers? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: Housing in Korea |
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| plattwaz wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
It would be a single main room of about 225sq feet - 23 square meters and a utility room and bathroom. Total size would be in the range of 30 sq. meters (5m x 6m) or 300 sq feet.
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That's only 10 pyong!!!! Even when my academy in Apgujeong got the teachers the tiniest villas known to man, they were still 13-14 pyong.
If a school is only providing you with 10 pyong, you're going to have a rough year of it.
Anyway, that is a very good description of what an apartment is like -- a small hotel room. |
Yup.... 10py... and in the last 5 years here, I have seen the inside of probably a hundred ESL teachers houses and that would be a pretty standard average size.
Even MY 1st "house" was only 10py. I have had suites ranging from 10py-14py when working in hakwons.
My current place is only 19py and it is pretty nice compared to hakwon standards. |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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plattwaz
Joined: 08 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
10 pyeong was standard a couple of years ago
certainly a lot of eslers have lived in them
have one-room places really gotten much bigger for eslers? |
Sure I suppose a lot of people have lived in them, but I've been here 5 years now, and the smallest I've lived in was 13.5 pyong, and that was in Cheongdam, one of the wealthiest areas of Seoul with very expensive housing.....and no one that I know has ever lived in anything as small as that place I had!
I just think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that just a couple of years ago that was "standard" size..... |
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