High-rises and haircuts….

Our apartment is manky, don’t get me wrong, we love it. It just gets so dirty very fast. Even though we are 15 floors up, take our shoes off at the door, and have quadruple double glazing, it’s amazing how much dust actually gets in and settles on the floors, worktops, appliances, TV and glass top units. We have tried all sorts of contraptions including mops, static mops, cloths and wipes with little or no effect. Even damping down with spray bottles – all have little or no effect. All we seem to do is push the stuff around, or chase it back into the air to settle on some other surface. It’s done our heads in. I thought I might be able to blag a few tacky type cloths from work, as these are common in the electronics industry for use in clean-rooms. They are special wax impregnated cloths which make the dust stick to the cloth, rather than being pushed around. We didn’t have any! I’m worried about the infamous “Yellow dust storms” that threaten the peninsula on regular occasions. We saw an infomercial the other day which refers to them as natural disasters! Blimey! With that in mind, we made our way to Home-plus and bought a cyclone pull-along vacuum cleaner. Sue now has a new toy to play with in the apartment – she has deliberately left some parts of the apartment so she has something to do during the week!
Sue had her hair done before we left the UK, and hoped it would last for a while. Roots have no mercy! She had discussed the delicate issue with our Canadian neighbours and both had decided to bite the bullet and go to one of several local salons in the vicinity. We had found one on the second floor of the shopping block next to our apartment, and went in armed with a few words stripped out of the Korean survival book. “Colour, blonde, and how much?” was about all we needed. A young man of usual hairdressing persuasion approached from the clipping of a customers head, wanting to know what we required. A few points to roots, smattering of Korean, and bad renditions of “Blond-eru!” seemed to do the trick. What we didn’t expect, was to be seated and told it could be done next! We declined and made an appointment for the Monday. It seems that no appointments necessary – just walk in and wait. Great, how much? The guy brings out 3 x 10,000KRW notes for the till. 30,000KRW? Just under 15GBP, for a Colour, Trim, Wash & Blow dry? What kind of place was this? A great place actually, and a very good job too - another fine example of rip-off GB. Expect to pay about 50+ GBP back home. She’ll be back!