🇰🇷 Why do Koreans get a couch and don't use it?😂

안녕하세요. 1분한국어 아일린이에요  🙋🏻‍♀️

요즘 날씨가 많이 추워졌어요. The weather gets cold lately. 

It reminds me too much of the Korean heating system. It deserves to be shown off 😊, so I'd like to introduce the Korean traditional heating system, 온돌(Ondol).

 ✔︎ 오늘의 1분한국어 

온돌 literally means warm stones and here is a brief introduction!

🌱 How is the structure of Ondol formed?  

👉 When we make a fire in the fireplace, the heat goes beneath the flat stones in the room and boosts the temperature in the entire room. Finally, it is released through the chimney.

🌱 It's warm all day long!

When people made a fire to cook in the morning, the heat was maintained until the afternoon. It repeated in lunch time. They made a fire to make lunch and the heat was maintained until the evening. When they cook dinner, the heat was maintained all night. It's really brilliant!

🌱 Why do Koreans get a couch and don't use it?

Thanks to 온돌, the floor is much warmer than the indoor air, and people naturally sit on the floor rather than on chairs. Koreans thus sit, eat, associate, and even sleep on the floor. 

🌱 Do Korean use Ondol these days?

Not really. Instead, people use 보일러(Boiler), an updated version of ondol​—hydronic radiant floor heating. This uses hot water instead of hot air to warm the floor. (But, interestingly it's not the Koreans who developed this system🤔)

🙋🏻‍♀️ Did you find an answer to the question: Why do Koreans get a couch and don't use it? You're right. Koreans do everything not on a couch, but in front of a couch! 😂

오늘은 여기까지예요! 따뜻한 하루 보내요❤️

That's it for today! Have a warm day❤️