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Matt_22 · Joined: 22 Nov 2006

came out to 399,060 for the month of june. hmmm.... i think i'll have to make a phone call here...

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

How often have you been using your A/C?

How many other people are in your building. Is it a small buidlign owned by your school? If so there is a good chance that other peoples power is jumped through your meter.

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

What does a regular A/C (or electric bill in the summer using A/C) look like?

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

12k a month for me.

I only use a fan. It's not exactly hot

Matt_22 · Joined: 22 Nov 2006

no, i live in a huge apartment building. i'd say i use my A/C 16 hours per day on average, at about 22-24 degrees.

seoulsucker · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject:

Well, there you go. 16 hours a day of AC use is going to run up a hell of a bill.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

THere you go then

16 - 22 hours

How much is one KWh here? 200W?

How big an apartment? Your A/C could be from 3kW up to 6kW

Running at 3kw at 200W and hour is 600W * 20 hours 6000 x 30 = 180,000

6kW at 200W (could be wrong on the cost) = 360,000W

Masta_Don · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul

I leave my air on 24/7. My unit isn't very powerful and my room isn't very big, but the bill is only 30k/month.

Horangi Munshin · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: Busan

The more electricity you use the more you pay per unit. The charging brackets should be detailed on the back of the bill, if it's part of an apartment bill then maybe not.

The fixed charge is set for a kwh range like 0-50 and so on. More importantly the kw rate goes up too. I don't know the exact figures but maybe for moderate use your last kwh might cost you 200won, for heavy use the last kwh might cost you 600.

Think of it like progressive tax rates.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

If you get to a certain amout of elecricity consumption(don't know what the # is) your bill doubles. Even if your 1 kw/h over...that one will double your bill.

Edit: back in Daegu the wife and I had some 400/500k months.

Next month cut back.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

sojourner1 · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:13 am Post subject:

Yes, I have been paying like only 12 to 15 thousand won a month for electric, but have been running the A/C like 2 to 4 hours a day on some days during June and July and hope it doesn't cost me hundreds of thousands of won. I got my electric bill today for June and it's only 15K.

Now I am only wondering how much my gas will be for 6 months when I get it in September as we pay gas once every 6 months here.