Sauna-issue
Going to a spa at home is pretty expensive, but you get massages, face masks and mud baths. And that is only a few of the fabulous treatments available. Going to a spa in Korea is a whole different story.
It is cheap, but you have to buy your own sheet-like face mask, you don't have mud baths (only pools filled with varying temperatures of water) and the closest you're going to get to a massage, is an adjumma scrubbing you from head to toe. The method closely resembling torture, as described by books about the middle ages. But apparently it makes you feel great afterwards.
There are areas for men and women separately and everyone is walking around as naked as the day they came into this world. No towels or swimwear allowed. There are mixed areas, but there you wear special outfits supplied by the spa.
As foreigners, you are always stared at and it is not uncommon for Koreans to leave the pools when you enter them. Saunas (set to temperatures recognized by inhabitants of hell) are also available in either wet or dry and they are great for sweating out the stress of your day (or your soul, whichever you feel more comfortable with).
Our favourite kind of spa is called a Jjimjilbang. It is an area where you can sleep. It is very cheap (sometimes as little as 7,000 won) to grab a towel, lay it somewhere on the floor and sleep. Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you have full use of the bath tubs and showers. This is very popular among foreigners who don't want to pay 30,000 won for the red-light and round bed luxury of a dodgy love motel.
There are jjimjilbangs on every corner of every city. In Korea you will never be without a place to sleep and you will never have an excuse to be stinky.
It is cheap, but you have to buy your own sheet-like face mask, you don't have mud baths (only pools filled with varying temperatures of water) and the closest you're going to get to a massage, is an adjumma scrubbing you from head to toe. The method closely resembling torture, as described by books about the middle ages. But apparently it makes you feel great afterwards.
There are areas for men and women separately and everyone is walking around as naked as the day they came into this world. No towels or swimwear allowed. There are mixed areas, but there you wear special outfits supplied by the spa.
As foreigners, you are always stared at and it is not uncommon for Koreans to leave the pools when you enter them. Saunas (set to temperatures recognized by inhabitants of hell) are also available in either wet or dry and they are great for sweating out the stress of your day (or your soul, whichever you feel more comfortable with).
Our favourite kind of spa is called a Jjimjilbang. It is an area where you can sleep. It is very cheap (sometimes as little as 7,000 won) to grab a towel, lay it somewhere on the floor and sleep. Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, you have full use of the bath tubs and showers. This is very popular among foreigners who don't want to pay 30,000 won for the red-light and round bed luxury of a dodgy love motel.
There are jjimjilbangs on every corner of every city. In Korea you will never be without a place to sleep and you will never have an excuse to be stinky.
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