Pyeong-ing away

You got to love the awkward way everyone is dealing with the recent government ban against nthe old “pyeong” unit of measurement. Witness todays Dong-A headline: “Average Apartment Price Exceeds Eight Million Won per 3.3 Square Meters”. So I guess the message from the government is we can USE pyeong, just not speak its name. Silly government laws.

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6 Comments

  1. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:24 am | Permalink

    Well, considering the apartment prices in Kyeonggi are grossly inflated, it would be probably about 4.5-6 million won per pyeong for the rest of Korea.

  2. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    Woops, didn’t read the rest of the article. 4 million won per pyeong for the rest of Korea.

  3. austin your flag
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:38 am | Permalink

    4 million per 3.3m for an aprtment that is absolute CRAPOLA!!!. Wallpaper stuck straight on concrete (No Plaster Walls), tiles not glued down properly, crap stinky plumbing, no allocated parking, crap design, no outside rendering, floors with no underlay. This is why I rent. Only an idiot would pay top dollar for such crappo el cheapo workmanship

  4. dda your flag
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:39 am | Permalink

    So I guess the message from the government is we can USE pyeong, just not speak its name. Silly government laws.

    Well, look at the first sentence of this farticle:

    The national average apartment price is more than eight million won per 3.3 square meters (1 pyeong).

    You *can* speak its name — just between parens. Make that *very* silly law… ;-)

  5. austin your flag
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:50 am | Permalink

    Try getting Americans to use Meters instead of feet, or Kilograms instead of Pounds. If you can’t get Americans to catch up with the rest of the world, then it ain’t gonna happen in Korea.

  6. globalvillageidiot your flag
    Posted August 13, 2007 at 10:56 am | Permalink

    The unit of measurement issue is silly. Not as silly as dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars on a poorly designed and cheaply built shoe box-sized home in not-so-beautiful Daechi-dong, but pretty silly.

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