Korean Technology Update: It's Always Something

Since coming to Korea, we have suffered:

- temperamental air conditioners and incomprehensible door control panels
- a stove we couldn't turn on
- dryers that won't dry
- no hot water in the bathroom
- not enough hot water in the floors
- too much hot water in the floors
- crazy Asian toilets that clog if you flush toilet paper (although we did not blog about it, we did, in fact, clog this hotel toilet so badly that I used the lobby bathroom in the middle of the night). (2x)
- Internet loss in the apartment (almost countless)
- power loss in the apartment

And this is just the ones that we remembered to blog about!

So let's put your money on what technological breakdown you think we'll experience next. Ready?

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If you guessed "Refrigerator," give yourself a prize! Last weekend, the freezer inexplicably cut out. We schlepped our perishables over to the neighbor, only to find out that the freezer resumed working overnight. Brimming with optimism that we'd simply left the door ajar (you'd think we'd learn), we reclaimed our freezer bag and resumed business.

Ha! Over the course of the week, the freezer and the fridge have proceeded to cut out at random, unpredictable intervals. The sour cream is liquefied. The cheese is no more. The butter smelled like feet. Basically, we had to bail on and clean out the entire refrigerator until the repair guy comes on Monday. And if you read any of the links above, you know that the odds of anything actually being repaired on Monday are kind of slim. We're also concerned that they'll try to get us to pay for any repairs, which would be totally uncool since a) we didn't break it and b) it belongs to the school. But our neighbors, who lost washing machine function, were asked to pay for repairs to that, so our trepidation may not be misplaced.

Anyway. Here's to a weekend full of Korean food (ugh) and nonperishables.