translation practice #4 (03 oct 2007)

[hyunwoo]

See if you can get them all, people!

[John]

Golf, Yoga, Latin......the others I am not so sure.

[steved]

Health, golf, Taibo (as in the Billy Blanks variety??)
Yoga, Jazz, Latin (dance)
Night (club??), 사우나.

[Keith]

haha! great picture! that's so weird there would be a 헬스, 나이트, 짐찔방 and all that other stuff in the same building.

Now it's just missing a 노래방, PC방 and 당구장... ^^

[hyunwoo]

Haha, yeah, right! It's got everything for your entertainment except for 노래방, PC방 and 당구장

[hyunwoo]

The answer is :

헬스 : Fitness Club
골프 : Golf
태보 : Tae-Bo (like Steve said, Billy Blanks made it, and it's a mixture of Taegwondo, Boxing and Dancing)
요가 : Yoga
째즈 : Jazz Dance
라틴 : Latin Dance
나이트 : Night Club
찜질방 : Sauna


good job everyone!

[steved]

My wife tells me that a 사우나 and 찜질방 are a bit different, that people tend to just hang out all day in the 찜질방, order take-out and generally gossip all day (OK, I might be putting words in her mouth but that is the impression that I got).

[hyunwoo]

Yes, you're right

To be more precise, 찜질방 has 사우나 inside it.

찜질방 has 사우나, 목욕탕(public bath house), PC방(internet center), 매점(snack shop), and all sorts of facilities.

Cheap ones cost around 5,000 for as long as you wish to stay, but some decent ones cost around 8,000 ~ 10,000 and you can actually sleep over in 찜질방 if you don't have a place to stay over the night.

I've been to 찜질방 twice - once with my family and once with my friends, and when I went with my family I stayed there for about 4 hours, and it was very boring to me. But all the other people seemed to be enjoying watching TV there

[John]

Yeah I figured since I am so poor, when I do eventually go to Korea that I will sleep in the sauna to save money......