Moving out of the dorm: Handong U Style

Students moved out last week, and we have enjoyed exploring what they have left behind. Before getting to our findings, a moment to describe the unusual student moving process here, based on our observations.

#1: Students buy boxes and labels from a tent.

(2) Students pack the boxes, affix the labels, and pile the boxes in designated locations in each residence hall.  The six residence halls are 4-6 floors high; only 2 have elevators.  Students with access to elevators take their boxes to the lobby; students without elevator access either carry their things to the lobby (floors 1 & 2) or to designated rooms on the other floors. Of course, if they live in Pohang or have a car, they move their own things out of the dorms.

#3: A group of men comes to each dorm with a roller-rack and truck, loading up lobby boxes.  Note that clothing colors have no associated gender - men wearing pink or lavender is no big deal.

#4: Elisabeth foregrounds the conveyor/crane contraption brought to the dorms that don't have elevators.

#5: A man-team loads boxes onto the platform, which travels down to other guys for loading onto a pallet.

#6: Forklifts take the loaded pallets away.

 

#7:The forklifted pallets are taken to semis and unloaded there.

#8: The loaded semis are driven to Seoul (about 4 hours away). The university provides free bus transportation for students to any city/town in the country, and shipping their belongings to Seoul either for pick-up or mailing saves students a ton of hassle and money; the campus post office couldn't handle this volume.