Korea – our digs
This is the long overdue apartment-tour post as it’s four months since we moved into our little 1 room office-tel in Pyeongchon, Anyang City, Korea. Small living spaces are pretty standard in urban Korea and we’ve done our best to make ours homely, bearing in mind that we will only be here for 1 year. Despite it being a little on the small size, for 1 year it’s perfect – especially since we don’t need to pay for it (our contracts at the school include housing for the year.)
So the outside of our apartment kind of looks like a prison cell. The bars on the left of the picture are on front of our bedroom window – don’t know who decided that a view of the indoor communal close is the sort of thing that people want in their bedroom but nevermind, we got some nice pink Ikea fabric (thanks Mum!) to cover it. Instead of a conventional key lock we have this snazzy machine that we enter a code into, so no more losing keys on drunken nights out (Fraser) which is good!
This is our bedroom (which is literally a bed, inside a room) with aforementioned pink fabric, and obligatory Robbie the dog picture. In the corridor picture you can see the bedroom on the right next to the front door, and also a sliver of bathroom which is too small to get inside and photograph. Opposite the bedroom we have a built-in wardrobe and a big fridge freezer. Yes, that is our entire kitchen you can see on the left!
This is our living space and kitchen, complete with recently purchased toaster! We didn’t have a comfy couch when we first moved in but after a quick scout around the streets next to nearby apartment blocks, we found this suite in almost perfect condition ready to be thrown out!
Collection of miniature cuddly toy keyrings won by Fraser at the local batting cage (mentioned in previous posts – place you can go hit a baseball inside a cage in exchange for cuddly toys…).
The birdcages are wall stickers that we bought at local supermarket!
Our garden!
Some more cuddly toys won by Fraser, along with our stash of takeaway menus which we don’t use as our Korean is most definitely not good enough to make the order phonecall yet!
