Our Apartment

Welcome to our Korean apartment! Living abroad, we have learned that we can live comfortably with a lot less, as you will see from our pics.

This is our apartment building. We're on the first floor in the back, so you can't see it from this picture. Our building is really small compared to most...3 levels, each with 3 apartments. It seems like most people live in apartments/condos here. We've seen very few houses. The apartment buildings are usually really tall. One of the students we teach lives on the 25th floor of her apartment!

This is our foyer. We have to remove our shoes and put them in a cabinet that's on the right.

When you first walk-in, you will see our "office" and living room.

Living room: Check out our new couch we ordered for only $100! It's "pleather" and a little hard, but it definitely beats sitting on the floor. The small red table is where we eat our meals.

One of the best parts of our apartment is our TV. We get about 5 channels in English!!! We can watch CNN International and there's always an English movie on at least one channel. In the morning, we can usually watch old episodes of shows like Grey's Anatomy, Without a Trace, Law and Order, and CSI Miami.

To the right of the entry way is our kitchen. Pretty basic...small gas stove, sink, and cabinets, but no oven or dishwasher.

This is the other side of our living room. To the right is the kitchen, the door leads to the bathroom, and the glass doors open to our enclosed patio/laundry room.

A close-up of our patio/laundry room. We don't have a dryer so we have to hang our clothes to dry out there.

To the left of the front door is our bedroom. Our bed is on a bed frame, but it's still only about 2-3" off the ground. We're just so thankful it's a real mattress and not a futon on the floor like in Japan!

This is the other side of our bedroom. We have another enclosed patio area here too that we use for storage. Another free-standing closet is out there, too.

Last but not least, our bathroom. As you can see, we shower in the middle of the bathroom...there's no curtain or tub. Water gets all over the toilet and sink, but we just leave the window open and it dries pretty quickly.