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Dragon Hill Spa Seoul, S. Korea By Marsha Nelson
When I was a little girl, I remember my Oma (Korean for Mom) making me sit in the bath tub with hot water while she either washed dishes or watched Dallas, usually the latter. The water would be so hot, I would have to step in and out at least five times or more before I could comfortably sit still in the water. I was instructed to let her know when my fingertips were ‘wrinkly.’ I would yell out from the bathtub that I was ‘wrinkly’ and she would come up to take off my “dde” (dead skin or as my mom described it ‘dirt’). She would slip on a red washcloth known as an “Italy Towel” and scrub with the strength of 2000 men. This type of scrubbing is called ‘seshin’ and is a common practice in Korean culture. I had no idea my 5’0, 100lb Korean mother was so damn strong. She would scrub me so hard I felt the skin and white meat remove from my bones. I would cry from the pain and laugh from the tickles. Her response to my pain was always “Sit still and it won’t hurt.” As a child I thought everybody bathed like this, but quickly learned how wrong I was. I was about 8-years old when I went to my first Korean bathhouse. It was just like my baths at home except with other naked people. My family and I had just moved to South Korea, my mother’s birth place, and my oma quickly dragged me along with her to the nearest mogyogtang when we settled into our new home. Some people may know a Korean bathhouse as a jjimjilbang. The jjimjilbang is essentially the spa and relaxation part of going to a Korean bathhouse. It includes hot sauna, restaurants, resting/sleeping area and is a common area shared by both men and woman. The mogyoktang is the bathing area which is a completely different section from the jjimjilbang and is separated into male and female sections. Personally, I’m a fan of the mogyoktang. It’s the best kind of clean you can ever feel once you get past being naked in front of complete strangers, soaking in a hot tub with naked strangers, and being scrubbed down in every crevice imaginable (they are very thorough) by a Korean ajumma with hands of steel. I guarantee they will all talk about you and laugh at your pain, but once you rinse the years of dde from your body you will emerge a completely new person and likely a shade or two lighter than when you walked in the front door. Your skin will glow and be smoother than a baby’s bottom. After a bath like that, you will feel as though you’ve had the workout of your life. That’s when you can head over to the jjimjilbang and relax. You’ve never experienced a clean body until you’ve had a Korean scrubbing.
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