Homestead

Finally got around to taking some pics of my place. It's an apartment on the second floor of a small apartment complex. I live in Jungang-dong near the downtown Changwon area. I will go take some photos (maybe tonight?) that will show you what downtown looks like. These, I admit, are pretty boring but wanted to post 'em for the fam.


I've heard that most places in Korea don't come with dryers equipped. This is my Korean dryer out on my deck area.


I really like these. They are dried, salted, slices of seaweed. They are good to snack on or work well in other dishes, like bibimbap. Bibimbap, by the way, is super easy to make. One of my favorite new dishes here.


Standard Korean ramen. This particular brand is VERY spicy. Like turn-your-mouth-and-teeth-red spicy.

Individually packaged kimchi from Home Plus. Starting to really like this stuff.



My Korean coffee. Home brewed coffee isn't popular here like it is in the West. We have Starbucks in Changwon but a good latte will cost you around $6. This particular one is a mocha mix you just add to hot water. It's actually pretty good considering it's instant coffee.



View from my apartment deck. It looks really smoggy because of the yellow dust blowing in from China.



Another view from my deck.

My room.

My bathroom. They don't have traditional Western showers here. All of the tiling is curved down towards the drain so you shower in the middle of your bathroom. You wear waterproof bathroom slippers when you're showering in here.



My kitchen. Oh so quaint.


The ondol heating system I explained earlier. Since you have your shoes off whenever you're inside your feet stay surprisingly warm all of the time. You either have your hot water heater on, which by default will heat the floor, or, just turn on the floor heater when you're not using any hot water.

My bed. The mattresses here are SO HARD, it feels like your sleeping on sheet of steel. I'm getting used to it, though. It's actually better on my back I think.

City/downtown shots to come. The cherry blossoms (which are EVERYWHERE), I've been told, are about to bloom here so hopefully I can grab some quality pics of them in the coming weeks.