"Home"

To abate my sister's continual pleas, I present to you: Smartvill. Our new apartment and home for the next year!

This building is so new, there's still cardboard on the walls of the elevator, and the taxis don't know where to take us if we say the name of the place. My anxieties of pests and poor insulation subsided immediately. It's clean and bright and pretty high-tech. Samsung everything - TV, AC, video intercom, toilet/bidet, inversion washer/dryer, microwave. It even has a key-less code access and automatic, motion-sensing light in the entryway. Overall, we are very pleased.

Notice: no oven! To the right is our refrigerator, which disguises itself as a cabinet.

I have no idea how to use a bidet.

Walk-in closet but not enough hangers.

The tiniest bedroom. Our bed hardly fits. Korean bedding is quite odd; not too soft and rather frilly. Also, the mattress is extremely firm. My dad would love it, I think.

No couch, just this cool mat thing. Very Asian-feeling. The view out the window is horrendous. I'll save that nugget for another day.

We watched Korean news and they talked about the election. We can't escape it...

Well, what do you think? Not too bad, eh? It's much nicer than our apartment in Maryland! We can't complain.