I had forgotten how noisy Korea can be sometimes, especially on university campuses. My in-laws live right beside Tongguk University, and apparently the students are having a party/concert/whatever on campus, and while both sets of windows are closed tight, and there are a few buildings between the campus and my room, the sound is deafening. I know that Koreans are impervious to noise, but this is quite above just annoyance, it’s a friggin’ assault, and apparently there’s nothing you can do about it but ride it out. Reminds me of my time at HUFS, where such concerts were frequent and a bloody nightmare for the foreign profs living on campus.
I guess it makes that little kid running around in the flat above us in France a very minor nuisance after all…
Same at the Konkuk campus during spring time: student unions, spring festival, spring sport festival, music festival etc. Extremely noisy, even until the 13th floor. Reminds me something that may be typical of Korean campuses and which I experienced while residing at the ICU campus (Daejeon) — I was reported the same phenomenon on the KAIST campus: students washing their clothes at 3 A.M. any day. And I was hosted on the first floor, the same floor where the washing machines were located.