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[Hater Depot]

CLEAN YOUR MOTHERF#CKING BATHROOM. IT IS STANKY.

You may be wondering how I know your bathroom is so repulsive. It's simple really.

Both apartments I have lived in in Korea have had a nasty bathroom. I'm talking about walls-covered-in-black-mold, how-the-fcuk-can-a-ceiling-be-so-dirty?, well-just-thank-heaven-he-didn't-leave-a-floater-in-the-toilet,
nasty. We're not savages, people, and we don't have to live this way. It's probably not a real hit with your girlfriend either. So please, whoever is living in my future apartment, go clean your bathroom.

[Qinella]

Yes, I saw a friend's apartment a couple weeks ago. I wasn't sure where I should stand, and sitting was completely out of the question. I just sorta dawdled around for 20 minutes until it was time to leave.

I looked into the bathroom and almost fainted. The tile was completely hidden by assorted types of hair. The mirror was a haze of toothpaste and water stains. The inside of the toilet was completely black. I'm afraid to know what the toilet seat looks like.

He opened the refrigerator and the resulting smell permeated his apartment for about 3 minutes. There were so many dirty dishes, I think it would be impossible to even clear out room to start doing them. The bed was piled high with clothes and various debris.

The dust scared the soap remnants on my skin and it all took off running for the door.

Really, I don't know how some people do it. How is it even possible?

The guy who lived in the apartment before me... When I moved in, the dishes in the cabinets were still dirty. And they were shelved for use! All the cabinets had a layer of dirt/dust. The walls all over the kitcen were filthy with grease spatterings. Glass around the shower stall is coated with over a year of water/soap scum. When I took a calendar off the wall, the shape of the calendar remained because cigarette smoke had discolored everything around it.

Frikkin a. People have all this luxury at their disposal and live like damn monkeys. Is it that hard to run a wet rag across the counter every now and then?

[Nina]

On my first day in Korea, I spent 20 minutes cleaning the bathroom before i could pee.
It was not a good first impression.

[uberscheisse]

everyone - hire an ajumma!!!

i never have time to clean, therefore my apartment can get into a state.

every month i invest about 30,000 in a 5 hour ajumma cleaning binge. my apt. is spotless in a way that western eyes cannot comprehend.

just ask your school. if you're about to leave, get them to refer you to someone. the ajumma will be a dirt nazi.

[mmstyle]

Ugh. I think I"ll back antibacterial everything in my luggage for when I land.

Not the first time I've read this.

As for the cig smaell, I'm wondering if I should bring nag champa incense (Agarabatti, if you know the brand) or if it's available in Korea cheaply.

[uberscheisse]

[billybrobby]

I would like to make a similar announcement:

To the guy who will be living in my apartment after me--

CLEAN YOUR MOTHERF#CKING BATHROOM. IT WILL BE STANKY.

How can you stand to live all that filth that I created? You should be ashamed. We're not savages. Well, you shouldn't be anyways. Take a second to scrub that ring around the toilet that I left. And pick up that old toilet paper roll i threw in the corner rather than walk 2 feet to the trashcan. I mean, if YOU can't walk 2 feet, that's just lazy. And you might want to clean out the nasty drain trap, but I can't give you any advice on how to open it, because frankly I don't know. And don't forget the little touches, like wiping off my toothpaste spittle from the sink and clearing my soap crud from the soap dish. I think there's a brush or something behind the toilet that you can use, but you might want to buy a smaller brush to brush that brush, because it's pretty funky. And you when you clean the toilet, you might want to begin by flushing it, because if the day you move in is like any other day, there's probably gonna be a big log floating in it.

Please, whoever will be living my current apartment, clean the bathroom.

[snowy32]

[princess]

[Dev]

If your school is providing the apartment, problems can be expected. Naturally they give you one of the cheaper apartments like a one room "villa apartment". The kind of Koreans that live in these places are not the best. Often they're university students who neglect taking care of their apartments because they're too busy with thier studies and / or too lazy to clean them.

My building is chuck full of university students. My problem wasn't the bathroom, but the kitchen. The previous tenants were dirty in the kitchen. I opened a drawer and found packets of oily ramen sauce some of which had been broken and leaked all over the inside of the drawer. I tried to clean it up the best that I could, but there is still an oily stain. My kitchen cupboard is ant infested. I've put ant poison in there, but the ants got smart and now avoid the traps.

I once shared a flat with a Japanese university student and he wasn't much better. He was too cheap to buy a dish cloth. He prefered to throw the wet dishes he had washed straight into the wooden cupboards. What a beeeeep!

All you can do is try to clean things the best you can and remember, it's only temporary.

[Qinella]

[Hollywoodaction]

[Hater Depot]

[Otus]

Getting a cleaner is cheap and a great way to keep your apt. in good appearance. But make sure your appt. is as clean as possible when the ajuma first arrives and keep it in reasonable condition before any future arrivals. For many people that is just common sense, but I've seen some idiots over here who think they are paying someone to clean up everything. The ajuma will bolt in five seconds if she first walks into a mess. Doesn't help when they put the word around.

[Satori]