What a lovely poop hole!
Brian and I have recently been trying to convince our friend Tim to move to Boston with us next year, to share our dream of drinking luke warm bottles of high life on the porch of a Somerville triple decker...
However, as of late, a "teach English in Korea" program has started trying to recruit him, bombarding him with e-mails, seducing him with visions of self-improvement, etc etc.
So I decided that, to fight back, I would post on this here blog about Korean bathrooms, assuming, like the ignorant fuck that I am, that toilets abroad, if not actually more repulsive than American bathrooms, are different enough to at least seem a bit scary to your average traveler.
Observe, for instance, "the German poop shelf."
As it turns out, however, Korean public bathrooms have quite the reputation. Fountains, moats, classical music, skylights, an "etiquette bell" in women's restrooms to drown out "other noises"
...according to Sim Jae-douk, the mayor of the Korean city of Suwon, "the toilet is not only for the organic system...the toilet can be a part of culture which we can proudly present, not only to Korean but to the rest of the world."
So I stand corrected.
I also found this website with "toilets of the world." Aside from being interesting and whatnot, you just can't help but wonder what kind of guy the webmaster is in real life...
And if you want to continue today's toilet themed browsing adventure, visit this, the most depressing website I've seen in a while, and check out this art project proposal which is kind of like Christo, only slightly suckier.
However, as of late, a "teach English in Korea" program has started trying to recruit him, bombarding him with e-mails, seducing him with visions of self-improvement, etc etc.
So I decided that, to fight back, I would post on this here blog about Korean bathrooms, assuming, like the ignorant fuck that I am, that toilets abroad, if not actually more repulsive than American bathrooms, are different enough to at least seem a bit scary to your average traveler.
Observe, for instance, "the German poop shelf."
As it turns out, however, Korean public bathrooms have quite the reputation. Fountains, moats, classical music, skylights, an "etiquette bell" in women's restrooms to drown out "other noises"
...according to Sim Jae-douk, the mayor of the Korean city of Suwon, "the toilet is not only for the organic system...the toilet can be a part of culture which we can proudly present, not only to Korean but to the rest of the world."
So I stand corrected.
I also found this website with "toilets of the world." Aside from being interesting and whatnot, you just can't help but wonder what kind of guy the webmaster is in real life...
And if you want to continue today's toilet themed browsing adventure, visit this, the most depressing website I've seen in a while, and check out this art project proposal which is kind of like Christo, only slightly suckier.
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