Friday, September 18, 2009

Konglish in the elevator

As I mentioned in my earlier post about foreigners in Korea, more non-Koreans have moved into our building lately. As one of them got into trouble when he couldn't read a notice about window cleaning, he complained to the building management that they should post important notices also in English.
For a while, we didn't notice any changes. Even when they shut down the DVD room, the notice was only in Korean. So I thought it will probably never happen.
But surprise! Today we walked into the elevator and saw this peculiar notice. After studying it for a while we are now able to decipher what was meant by it:

"The buttons on the inside of the elevator have been sterilized with a disinfectant against A(H1N1).
We ask for your understanding for the chemical smell."

Actually, the other foreigner only asked for IMPORTANT notices to be posted in English. I'm wondering about the future notices.

1 comments:

네모 said...

Well, they did their best and you understood what the notice meant. That would be enough for a start, i believe ^^