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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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 Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:22 am Post subject: Why is one door locked, one open? (Not a complaint; curious) |
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I've been trying to figure out why in Korean, if a building doorway has two doors, one will be locked and the other open. According to a friend of mine, this practice just popped up here about three years ago and he too has never figured out exactly what the purpose of it is. It must have some kind of purpose; it is completely uniform across the country (like it was advice in a building management magazine or something!).
Anyone got an idea? |
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RobinH
Joined: 18 Feb 2006
Location: Mid-bulk transport, standard radeon accelerator core, class code 03-K64--Firefly.
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I'll bet it has something to do with their idea of fire safety.  |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe they got it in Western countries, where this is done also. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Maybe they got it in Western countries, where this is done also. |
WHere are you from, because I have honestly never seen it. |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:20 am Post subject: Really? |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Maybe they got it in Western countries, where this is done also. |
Really? I have never encountered this at home in the states, or in any other Asian country. It might be in Japan; I haven't been in Japan for nearly five years, so I wouldn't know.
Really? I mean, you have encountered this in western countries to the uniform degree it is practiced here now? Where? Just curious!
Got any idea what the purpose is? ( I once thought on a rainy day that it was so the aujulshi would only have to clean one path of footprints!) |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah that boggles me, too. I asked my boss about it, and he said something about it conserving energy. Go figure. |
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Whitey Otez
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: The suburbs of Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:23 am Post subject: |
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Two obnoxious answers:
1. For my amusement when I hold the door open for a social retard who decides to try going through the closed door instead.
2. A subtle reminder to stay thin.
As to what I really think I may be tainted by my mother, who always tried to keep the cool air in on hot days and the warm air in on cold days. Perhaps they want to limit the airflow into and out of the building. |
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Pericles77
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| Because having both doors open would allow people to more easily get in and out. |
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charlieDD
Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: Yeah . . |
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| Pericles77 wrote: |
| Because having both doors open would allow people to more easily get in and out. |
Yeah, I have thought that it could be a kind of fire hazard or disaster hazard if everyone was trying to get out of the building in a hurry.
I guess they're depending on the security aujalshi to open them up in such circumstances.
While on doors open or closed, a friend of mine lives in a 21-floor apartment building where the cleaning ladies prop open both of the fire doors on each floor accessing the stairwell. They do it to create a draft through the building in hot weather. Seems many of the residents like to open windows and prop open their doors a bit to let a draft pass through their apartments and opening the stairwell doors helps pull the draft through the building. Problem is, those doors were designed to do just the opposite and prevent a draft carrying a fire through the entire building and up the stairwell that is supposed to be a safe emergency exit. Oh, and they prop the doors open with the fire extinguishers that are supposed to be posted near the elevators or in the hallways!
When my friend began regularly closing the stairwell doors on his floor, he got a note on his door asking him not to close them! He closed them because o aujulshis smoking in the stairwell and the smoke drifting down his hallway and into his apartment, even though the stairwells are clearly marked "No Smoking" and have security cameras that can see everything going on at any point in the stairwell, - uh, like people smoking! |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Why is one door locked, one open? (Not a complaint; curi |
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| charlieDD wrote: |
Anyone got an idea? |
Because if both doors were left unlocked, everyone could get their car seats out and their fans in at the same time. See, you have to think logically about these things. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Most of those buildings use AC. I'm betting they think they'll lose less energy if they only have one door open (how many of us have been in a room here with the AC on but the window open?). |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I hate Korean doors.
Ever notice how they have PUSH and PULL signs on doors that swing both ways? Can't they just leave it to our discretion? You're carrying a heavy box and you see a PULL sign and you think "nah, that's a fake-out" so you put your shoulder against it and lo-and-behold, it's the one time they weren't kidding.
And then you're trying to get out of your friend's apartment building so
1. you try pushing a door open. no go.
2. you try pulling.
3. you push and pull the other door.
4. you find the little button on the wall to unlock the door.
5. you find that it only unlocks one of the doors.
6. you come back the next day and find that the button need only be pushed from 8PM-6AM MWF, 10PM-5AM TTh, 7:42PM-2:31AM;2:35AM-4:44AM Sat Sun. |
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