On Friday I was informed that I had not paid my electricity bill for 9 months. It was supposed to have been deducted from my account automatically but something went wrong and it wasn't. Since my banking account is written entirely in Korean, I definitely didn't notice that it wasn't being paid.
Great. I thought. Nine months of electricity to pay TODAY or they're going to turn it off. This is going to be expensive. I hope I have enough to cover it. Visions of eating nothing but ramen noodle for the next few months started floating in my head, as I have been using the AC 24/7 this summer. I just assumed I had been paying it all along and since nothing terribly expensive had been deducted I didn't care that I kept my place cold.
Then I was told it would be 87,000 won. That's about $72.
"Wait. 87? For one month?" I asked.
"No. For the entire thing. Plus 14,000 next week as a late fee for not paying."
"Um. Sweet."
This is exactly why I have such a love/hate relationship with Korea. I love that 9 months of electricity only comes to 87,000 won. I hate that it took them 9 months to tell me that I wasn't paying my bill and when they did tell me it was "pay today or no electricity for you."
Great. I thought. Nine months of electricity to pay TODAY or they're going to turn it off. This is going to be expensive. I hope I have enough to cover it. Visions of eating nothing but ramen noodle for the next few months started floating in my head, as I have been using the AC 24/7 this summer. I just assumed I had been paying it all along and since nothing terribly expensive had been deducted I didn't care that I kept my place cold.
Then I was told it would be 87,000 won. That's about $72.
"Wait. 87? For one month?" I asked.
"No. For the entire thing. Plus 14,000 next week as a late fee for not paying."
"Um. Sweet."
This is exactly why I have such a love/hate relationship with Korea. I love that 9 months of electricity only comes to 87,000 won. I hate that it took them 9 months to tell me that I wasn't paying my bill and when they did tell me it was "pay today or no electricity for you."
Go figure.
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