The year after that, I moved to a ‘premium’ goshiwon. This was a bit of an oxymoron because goshiwons were by definition cheap studio apartments targeting students preparing for exams who didn’t have money to spare. The reason I went a bit beyond my means and looked for a ‘premium’ goshiwon was that I absolutely had to have my own bathroom.
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Ters köşeleri seviyorsan, seni sonuna kadar merakta bırakacak 3 kitap önerisini keşfetmeye hazır ol!
‘Why is it so hard to just walk?’
‘It’s just like a video game,’ Jisong said with a frown as she held down her bangs. ‘Like when you get hit with a debuff spell and are slowed. No matter how hard you press the forward key, it’s like bags of sand are tied to your feet preventing you from going any faster.’
Even though this happened to us every time, we were always surprised. Whenever we were in this train cabin racing away from our company, time seemed to run twice as fast.
Mr Koh was our team leader; taking responsibility was literally the first line in his job description. And yet he never, under any circumstances, took the blame for anything – even and especially when it mattered most.
Towards the end of the book, the concept of jeonse is referred to. Jeonse is a unique form of housing payment in which tenants make a lump-sum deposit on a rental space, sometimes tens or hundreds of millions of won, which is then returned at the end of the tenancy. In return, the tenant pays no monthly rent. Barring potential scams, this is the preferred method of renting living spaces in Korea.