What would you do if you lost your shoes at the Korean restaurant in Korea?

In South Korea, there are many Korean style restaurants where you should leave your shoes by the door area to go to a table for food and service.

Usually the system is not a problem but when there are crowded, some bad incidents are happened.

What is the events? LOSING SHOES.

It happened barely. When bad luck hits you, it can be you and your shoes can be disappeared without any clue.

What if your shoes are disappeared at that kind of Korean restaurant?

What will you do? What should you do?

Maybe the owner of the restaurant can say that he has no responsibility for your shoes. Or  there can be the board on the door or on the wall near the counter that says 'Keep your shoes by yourself to prevent loss and stolen'.

And possibly if the owner is kind and you are lucky enough, he will provide you a pair of slipper(slip-on shoes) for free so you can leave the restaurant.

Do you think the slipper is the best happy ending you can have?

I don't think so.

In Korea, there are laws to protect consumers. In this kind of case, there is Commercial Act about hospitality business.

The hospitality business is in the business of making transactions by theaters, hotels, restaurants, or other facilities used by the public. And anyone who engages in this business is called a hospitality service provider.

The Commercial Act regulates the liability of hospitality service providers.

Commercial Act Article 152 (Liability of Hospitality Service Providers)
(1) Unless a hospitality service provider proves that he/she has not been negligent in giving due care in the custody of articles deposited from his/her guests to him/her or his/her employee, the hospitality service provider shall be liable for damage resulting from the loss of or damage to the articles kept in his/her custody.
(2) A hospitality service provider shall be liable for damage for the loss of or damage to portable goods brought into his/her establishments, even if not particularly deposited by the guest, when it is due to the lack of due care of the business entity or any of his/her employees.
(3) No hospitality service provider shall be exonerated from liability under paragraphs (1) and (2), even if he/she has informed that he/she is not liable for the loss of or damage to the portable goods of guests.

Yes, it says the hospitality service providers shall be liable for the loss of or damage to the articles kept in his/her custody.

So when you take off your shoes and put them at the door and go to a table, it is thought that you and the owner of the restaurant make a contract containing that the owner keeps your belongs(shoes).

Even though the owner notices to the customers that no responsibility for loss and stolen, the owner's liability is not waived.

Now you know your right, and you can say to the owner like that

"Please, take your responsibility that is gave by Commercial Act Article 152. And give me back my shoes or show me the money!"

Of course, there is the statute of limitation for period for the liability. The period is 6 months.

Which means you should act for your right in 6 month after the incident.

And this law can be applied on car damage/stolen at parking lot where the owner controls.

How to remove yellow mushrooms that suddenly appeared in plant pots

In order to improve the atmosphere and air of the house, the trend is to put plant pots in the house and it is called 'green interior'.

Pots are not completely sanitized products such as soil, fertilizers, etc., so when you put them into the house, there are things that we do not know inside pots. And it leads to unexpected pests, weeds and mushrooms in plant pots.

Among them, let's take a look at 'yellow primrose/horn mushroom (plantpot dapperling, Leucocoprinus birnbaumii)' which is a common mushroom in the house.

The yellow color of the mushroom is very pretty and cute, but the mushroom's spores is poisonous, and can harm the plant.

Yellow mushroom, where are you from?

Mushrooms are usually spread in pots through two routes.
The first is when spores come in through soil or fertilizer.
Second, spores can reach through a shovel, clothes or in the air. So ​​it's a good idea to get rid of potted mushrooms quickly before spreading spores.

Damn, the yellow is even beautiful!

How to remove mushrooms in pots

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to completely remove the mushrooms from the plant pots once they started to grow. As we know, mushrooms grow through hyphae, so even if you remove them, they can grow again at any time if the growth condition is correct.

This is why it is important to use fully sterilized soil of the plant pot when you plant.

Anyway let's see how you can get rid of mushrooms in the plant pot.

1. Remove the mushroom that you can see

First, when the mushrooms grow up, the spores from pileus will travel to everywhere they can reach though the air. So you need to quickly remove the mushroom and soil near the mushroom before the mushrooms spread to other plant pots.
Observe the plnat pots every day and remove the mushrooms.

Remove the yellow mushroom like this(with soil)

2. Change the whole soil in the plant pot.

In fact, removing mushroom such as above method is temporary. To remove the mushrooms, it is good to replace the whole soil of the plant pot. And it is important to remove soil from the roots of plants. It is also good method to soak roots in clean water.

3. Using a Mold / Mushroom Remover

It is said that mushrooms and fungi are almost identical. So if you use a mushroom / fungal remover where the mushroom is grown, you can see the effect. But be careful, it can harm the plant so before try, must see the detail of the remover.

4. Changing the environment

This is one of the easiest, surest and hardest ways. You can eliminate the environment where mushrooms grow by change location of the plant, light and air flow. If you remove the warm and humid environment, the mushroom spores will not grow. Also sunlight can kill the mushrooms and spores.

A good combination of the above methods will effectively remove the mushrooms in the pot. But it is very difficult to get rid of all the spores already spread around the pots, and if there is anything coming from outside (fertilizer, air, water, etc.), there is always the possibility of mushrooms growing again.


One hope, though, is that most mushrooms that grow in plant pots do not harm plants. If you don't eat it, there's no harm to person.

But if you raise young children or animals at home, they can touch or eat it because of curiosity. So even though the mushrooms are harmless, it would be better remove them as soon as possible.

Very easy way to remove tempered glass screen protector

Nowadays tempered glass screen protector is one of the must-have items for smart phone to keep your phone fine.

It is very strong against scratches and thankfully when the screen was impacted, it absorbs instead of broken.

But the tempered glass screen protector will be turned a troublesome when you remove it. It is kind of GLASS so when it is broken it is sharp and hassle to handle.

So here is the easiest way to remove the tempered glass screen protector that I know and I do.
(Link for How to Video)

To do this, what you need is a toothpick or a plastic straw.

I do this with a plastic straw.
First, let us attack the slight gap between phone screen and the screen protector film.

As you can see the picture above, luckily my case I have a crevice at the red arrow. Then push your tool into the gap as possible as much.
If there is no chance, then you can make using your nail or a plastic card such as a name card(see the picture below).

I used my nail to make the space to put into. When do this, please do carefully! Because if the tempered glass screen protector breaks, the thing will get tired.

Now explore the between-land. Slowly put the straw into the gap and then you can see that the film seperates from the screen. Don't be hurry! The more the tempered glass screen protector damaged the harder the work will be.

I did slowly and carefully but the glass broke. When the glass is scattered, use a tape to keep them from going to everywhere.

Done! Without any damage or scratch on the smartphone screen, I removed the tempered glass screen protector. The tools I recommended are not sharp and weaker than the screen glass so they are hard to make damages on the screen glass.

Watch the video below to make this easier.

Korean Version of this post: How to remove tempered glass screen protector from smart phone.

How to remove Kimchi smell from a food container in Eco-friendly way

Kim-chi is one of the famous Korean food and many people love to eat Kimchi and some of them love to make/cook Kimchi themselves.

And some days ago, I read a article about how to keep Kimchi well and it said the best way to contain kimchi is putting it into a plastic container.There is a problem when you put kimchi into plastic containers, the problem is that the kimchi smell is retained in the container even after washing the plastic container several times.

Now let's find out how to remove kimchi smell from a plastic container eco-friendly.

1. Use sugar

I think this is the easiest way that we can try to remove any odor.
First, make solution of sugar and water. The ratio of sugar and water can be 1:2 or 1:3. The more sugar it has, the better. And put the sugar water into the container fully, then keep it one or two days. The sugar in the water will absorb the Kimchi smell.

2. Solar power! Sunlight.

Sunlight can be the best disinfectant and also be a deodorant.

It is also very easy. Just washing the plastic containers and expose them into the sun. The natural power will remove the Kimchi smell. Actually this way was what my mother did when I was a kid.

This is quite useful but I don't think it is to plastic containers. Because UV and heat from sunshine can be destroyed the plastic chemically and the damaged plastic can be harm to your health.

3. All-purpose detergent: Baking Soda

Recently, Baking Soda is used such as environment friendly multi-cleaner. It can be applied for washing dishes, cleaing vegitables and even removing chemicals.
This versatile detergent is soluble in water, and the alkali solution will get rid of germs and food particles on the plastic surface that can be hardly removed by general washing.

Put the plastic container into the baking soda water for 30 minutes or more until the odor disappeared.

4. Wheat flour

 
This is also easy way to deodorize the Kimchi smell. Put the wheat flour into water and stir till the powder and the water well mixed. And fill the plastic container with the water fully and then close the lid. Then keep the plastic container into the refrigerator for a day or more.
The flour partcles in the water will absorb the smell.

5. Eco-friendly disinfectant: Vinegar 
 

Like Baking Soda, vinegar is an environmental friend and we all have it in the kitchen cabinet.
The ability of vinegar to kill germs and bacteria removes the odors created by them.
Make vinegar solution with 2: 1 ratio of vinegar and water.
Such as other methods above, fill the solution into the container and leave it for a day or more.

Additionally, we can find other ways to deodorize the Kimchi smell away. Like as using coffee grounds, peel of onion and etc. But I do not think they do work.

So let us try the above method and to combinate them to increase the effectiveness. They will work out well.

AND there are two main causes of odor, food residues and bacteria. Normally, the smell is generated by the growth of germs in the food residue left on the surface. If you clean and disinfect in the usual environmentally friendly way, you will be able to live cleaner life without the smell.


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