Posted on 08/11/2018 7:30:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They want to “save the planet”.
Is this actually a Chinese run paper? I think I saw another article where the Chinese in Hong Kong were sleeping in McDonald’s restaurants precisely because of their air conditioning problems.
Some government goon probably saw that and decided they needed to make the Koreans and Japanese feel bad for the same thing.
Number of Hong Kong McDonald’s ‘McRefugees’ sleeping in restaurants has skyrocketed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3677163/posts
Korean idea of “hi-tech” is a shovel that is powered by 3 humans.
Maybe this is what Trump had in mind when he was selling Kim Jung Un about building hotels and making North Korea a tourist Mecca...
There are even personal sized swamp coolers that one places close where they are sitting or sleeping.
France doesn’t use it either
Except for commercial buildings no one had AC in Colorado when I was growing up. True in California if you lived in the Bay Area. Didn’t need it very often so why bother
Ive been in the summer...there are (traditional Korean style) spas to cool off or sweat it out in sauna on every corner it seems.
There is usually a ‘cold water’ mini pool and hot water etc...
This is typical in Asia. We have air conditioner/heaters for each room. When it’s too hot or too cold and you can’t bundle up or strip off clothes to be comfortable, you turn them on. This is standard in Japan. If it gets too hot in the house, I go outside. No big deal. I like the contrast on the high-tech and the uncomprehensible to the outsider “low-tech” that we have here.
A hot enclosed space combined with kimchi driven flatulence does not mix.
Freegards
Plenty of homes in the NE US with no AC.
Also in Korean culture, being cold is a big no-no...
Like iced drinks are traditionally looked down upon as being bad for health etc...
We put AC in our house on the peninsula when my wife was pregnant with our second child. We use it 10 to 20 days a year and it’s is wonderful. A nice luxury to have. Stucco houses are brutal...they absorb all the mid-day and afternoon heat on the south and west sides, then radiate it into the interior in the evening.
In south florida A/C is absolute.
We only have 2 seasons, hot and really HOT
The humidity is so high your sweat doesn’t evaporate cooling you off.
I drink at least 1 gallon of water when at work
New home owners had source their own if they chose to do so.
Yes.
Not directly run by the government, but very close.
Good catch.
It wasn't so long ago that refrigeration/AC was reserved for the very rich in Korea (I'm sure that's still true in the North). Korean cuisine is based on a lot of pickled vegetables (Kimchee), which don't require refrigeration, because most people didn't have refrigerators or electricity until recently.
Even in the big cities the majority of housing predates A/C. It's common to see concrete hi-rise apartment buildings with electric cables attached to the OUTSIDE, feeding individual A/C units.
Energy is expensive, even hot water is a luxury in some places...
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