Living in a Korean Apartment Complex
There's a family living above me. I always know when they're home. It's simple: if they're home, they make noise. If it's quiet they're not there or asleep. There are I guess two kids though sometimes seems like more who like to bounce it sounds like. I guess just running or jumping but sounds like bouncing.
At night at anytime during the night people in my apartment complex come in. Likely they're coming home. They walk up and down the stairs and talk in normal voices as though it's the middle of the day. They walk by my apartment and I can hear each word clearly. Korean girls often wear noisy shoes. You can really hear the noise in the middle of the night as they clop up the stairs. I'm in a building with six floors and I can hear every clop. Once I heard a girl go up the steps all the way from the ground floor to the 5th or 6th. I'm on the 4th and know she passed my floor.
A lot of students live in my complex but also a lot of families. I guess the students make most of the noise but adults do also. Sometimes I deliberate over whether I should feel suprise. I am suprised people would do this at 2, 3, 4 even up to 6am...but then I consider that since it's happened so many times I shouldn't be surprised anymore.
I'm American and we're known for a lot of things including being loud, but noise like this at night is unheard of. And if it happened people could always complain to the apartment owner.
I have to ask this: do Koreans find this inconsiderate? Are all the people being rude or is this perfectly normal? Do they not think even for a second that at 4am people are asleep and they should maybe take quiet steps or talk quietly, particularly if it's during the week?
At night at anytime during the night people in my apartment complex come in. Likely they're coming home. They walk up and down the stairs and talk in normal voices as though it's the middle of the day. They walk by my apartment and I can hear each word clearly. Korean girls often wear noisy shoes. You can really hear the noise in the middle of the night as they clop up the stairs. I'm in a building with six floors and I can hear every clop. Once I heard a girl go up the steps all the way from the ground floor to the 5th or 6th. I'm on the 4th and know she passed my floor.
A lot of students live in my complex but also a lot of families. I guess the students make most of the noise but adults do also. Sometimes I deliberate over whether I should feel suprise. I am suprised people would do this at 2, 3, 4 even up to 6am...but then I consider that since it's happened so many times I shouldn't be surprised anymore.
I'm American and we're known for a lot of things including being loud, but noise like this at night is unheard of. And if it happened people could always complain to the apartment owner.
I have to ask this: do Koreans find this inconsiderate? Are all the people being rude or is this perfectly normal? Do they not think even for a second that at 4am people are asleep and they should maybe take quiet steps or talk quietly, particularly if it's during the week?
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