I'm curious about what the current price of heating oil is in Korea these days for those of you who live off base and have to buy it.

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Someone please answer this one if they can!

I'm figuring the only comparison may be DF, diesel fuel, from a gas station.
I have seen a truck wth the old round charcoal "brick" you and I knew. I believe the are nearly gone now, except for cooking.
Today's choice is natural gas in cities, followed by propane tanks in non-gas areas. We still have DF as the major heating fuel in Yongsan. I'm in Nevada this week, so I can't answer.

I remember the hot spots on the andol heated floors. Last time I was living in Songtan I was paying around $1.50 per gallon for my heating oil. I figure it must be at least double that by now, unless the ROK is subsidizing it to keep the cost down.

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Well, watching the regular gas prices downtown they are not going up. They are staying around 4-6000won per gallon. That is what they were paying when I got here in 2005.


I know it does not answer your question but I believe the prices are would still be the same....

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Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. --Gerald Massey

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/artic...sp?aid=2890277

There is an article in today's Joongang Ilbo that says:

New lifestyles have emerged as Koreans struggle with the skyrocketing price of oil. Within a year, the price of gasoline went up from 1,100 won to 1,900 won per liter.

So it looks like gas prices in Korea on are the rise there as well.

As far as the old charcoal goes, due to the high fuel prices I have seen some Korean people (my landlord included) get a stove that can be taken apart in the summer. It burns charcoal, but unlike the old floor heat, it has pipes to the outside to get rid of the carbon monoxide. The whole thing can be taken apart. Where I live a lot of people have switched to city gas.

In Feb of 2007 1 barrel of oil on the world market averaged around $50. Last week 1 barrel of oil reached the $135 mark and closed around $132 for the week. Most of the small apartments in Korea, last time I was there, relied on heating oil for the boilers. I did live in a place for awhile that had one of those propane powered 'quick water heater systems but it basically sucked. I was just thinking how much heating oil might cost when I come back to the ROK or if people are switching to different sources for house/hot water heat. I have to think, based on the current oil price that heating oil would have to be at least double from what it was in the early decade, when 1 barrel of oil was still under $25 on the world market. Cheers.

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If you live in a highrise (which is where a significant portion of USFK employees live), I don't think it's a big consideration. There are huge hot water heaters that service the entire building. I'm sure the cost of heating the water is factored into the utilities, but almost everyone has utilities written into their lease as part of the rent, so they don't have to pay them.

I always preferred to live in a house in one of the neighborhoods or a small villa. Each place had its own boiler where the tenant was responsible for buying their own heating oil. I'm sure much of the neighborhood areas, beyond the high rises, are still using boilers that run on heating oil. I was just kind of thinking maybe someone on the forum actually lived in one of the neighborhoods like hobok bat and could give me a quick read on the current price of heating oil. Guess not.

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Most all the places here in our ville are being made to go to city gas...alot of the landlords are pisssed off becasue they have to pay for all the upgrades.

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Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. --Gerald Massey