A Chinese national has been taken into police custody for assaulting a man living in the room next to his own at a gosiwon (small private room) in Seoul with a weapon after becoming enraged by noise coming through the wall.
It all started with an “emergency” when German student Lydia Rouka returned to Korea from vacation only to find that her room and all her clothes were covered in mold — a water pipe had burst while she was away.
“What will be given to me? As payment for exhibiting my misery?”
“It was a space more the size of a coffin than a room,” wrote Park Min-gyu in his short story titled “Staying at Gap-eul Gosiwon” (2005), describing a gosiwon — a very small room rented out cheaply to students...
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