In the 1960s, in Korea, at a Korean friend’s family house outside of Seoul, there was no indoor toilet. There was a sort of out house and for toilet paper there was a stack of old pages from newspapers and magazines.
Now you know what made Sears & Roebuck such a success in the late 1800s.....................
My husband served during the Korean War. One day while handling a payroll at the Bank of Seoul he went to the restroom. It was a round room with seats all around the wall, like the Roman one shown here but round. There were several men seated. Then a woman walked in and the men nodded their heads politely. She also sat down, as did my husband. I wonder if they knew any Romans? He also learned to eat Kimchi. Every country home had a barrel of the stuff outside the house, and he figured if captured, he could escape and eat Kimchi until he rejoined our troops.