South Korea #7 – Sparking Public Restrooms – December 2014
You better use this one. ET might be lurking in the cave!
Without a doubt, South Korea has more clean public toilets than any other country in the world, including United States and Western Europe. In London for example, I can’t tell you the number of cups of coffee we ordered at cafés just to use the restroom. In South Korea, public bathrooms are everywhere, and we don’t mean the dirty slit trenches we found in China. We’re talking about real ultramodern toilets. Some even had heated toilet seats, a feature you could get used to. Others had the modern butt washers and warm air dryers. Some played classical music as you entered. Yeah really! Others had special seats to strap your child in while you did your business or a miniature toilet or urinal for little kids. Sometimes you could push a button to play a rushing water sound so the person next to you wouldn’t be bothered by your, well you know what it means. It served to remind us that we were back in “civilization”.
Without a doubt, South Korea has more clean public toilets than any other country in the world, including United States and Western Europe. In London for example, I can’t tell you the number of cups of coffee we ordered at cafés just to use the restroom. In South Korea, public bathrooms are everywhere, and we don’t mean the dirty slit trenches we found in China. We’re talking about real ultramodern toilets. Some even had heated toilet seats, a feature you could get used to. Others had the modern butt washers and warm air dryers. Some played classical music as you entered. Yeah really! Others had special seats to strap your child in while you did your business or a miniature toilet or urinal for little kids. Sometimes you could push a button to play a rushing water sound so the person next to you wouldn’t be bothered by your, well you know what it means. It served to remind us that we were back in “civilization”.
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- At a park. Warm, filled with classical music but behind the toilet were so many choices to push, Monika had to ask a lady which one was the flush button. The wrong one could have spelled disaster.
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- Yup. Push for a happy song.
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- South Korea has more clean public restrooms than any other country in the world.
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- There was almost always a “handicapped” toilet.
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- Women’s restrooms often had automatic raising seat lids, changing tables and baby seats with seat belts.
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- Others had a special child’s size toilet or urinal.
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- Often the seats were heated and offered “butt washers” or automatic “bidets” with warm air driers if you could read the directions.
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- Soap-on-a-stick was an old yet novel idea.
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- Unlike many countries we had traveled through, in Korea you could put used toilet paper in the toilet, or we think that’s what it said.
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