From 1995 to 1998 I lived in this apartment. It wasn’t big, but it was comfy. It was only 280 square feet and the style of apartment was One Big Room. It was more of a one bedroom apartment with a small kitchen and bathroom.

It was very conveniently located to the school I worked at as well as shopping and little mom and pop restaurants and markets. I was one of the few non-Koreans in the neighborhood, so I was easily recognized and treated like an honored guest most of the time.

I enjoyed living in this apartment, but it had a few drawbacks. There was no a/c and Seoul can get very warm. Worse though was it was only heated in the bedroom. Koreans favor flood hearting. This meant that my bathroom and kitchen had no heat at all. The kitchen was workable as ambient heat from the bedroom could help when I had the door open. The bathroom though was just miserable when it was 30° inside. Sometimes not even any hot water. Burr!

My time there was memorable, even those cold shouters.