12/09/2012
'찜질방(Jjimjilbang:Korean style spa)
This place is called 'Sparex'
Location: 동대문역사문화공원 (Dongdaemun History & Culture Park : 東大門歷史文化公園) Exit 14
Goodmorning City Shopping mall B3
Only 1 stop away by subway from our guest house
So what's Jjimjilbang?
A Jjimjilbang (찜질방) is a large, gender-segregated public bathhouse in Korea, furnished with hot tubs, showers, Finnish-style saunas, and massage tables, similar to a Korean sauna or mogyoktang. Jjimjil is derived from the words meaning heated bath. However, in other areas of the building or on other floors there are unisex areas, usually with a snack bar, ondol-heated floor for lounging and sleeping, wide-screen TVs, exercise rooms, ice rooms, heated salt rooms, PC bang, noraebang, and sleeping quarters with either bunk beds or sleeping mats. Many of the sleeping rooms can have themes or elements to them. Usually Jjimjilbangs will have various rooms with different temperatures to suit your preferred relaxing temperature. They inlay the walls with different woods, minerals, crystals, stones, and metals. This is to make the ambient mood and smell more natural. Often the elements used have traditional Korean medicinal purposes in the various rooms.
Some Jjimjilbangs are themed. In Jeju-do in the south there is a Coffee themed Jjimjilbang that has a coffee bath. Many have what can be called an international style with a general theme but no set look to it. It can seem random until you uncover the inspiration.
Most jjimjilbangs are open 24 hours and are a popular weekend getaway for Korean families. During the week, many hardworking Korean men, whose families live out of the city for cost savings, stay in Jjimjilbangs overnight after working or celebrating with co-workers late into the night. Jjimjilbangs are also popular with Korean women, and traditionally, Korean mothers used to take care of themselves in rooms made of Loess (called "Yellow Mud" in Korean) for three weeks before giving birth.
-- restaurants, coffeshops, 4 convenience stores, a movie theater, Namsangol Hanok Village, Korea House, Sparex(Korean traditional style spa), etc etc
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