Simon&Martina of eatyourkimchi.com open up their Bucheon apartment,the set for their famous videos.

If this apartment looks familiar to you it’s either because 1) you or your friend lives in one of these quintessential loft officetels in Seoul or 2) because you’re one of more than 59,000 internet users following the creators of eatyourkimchi.com.

Considering that you’re reading this online, and in English, it’s quite possible that you are familiar with Simon and Martina Stawski, the highly infectious husband and wife duo behind the informative and often just hilarious videos that cover anything from obscure Korean customs to how to dance K-Pop style.

Their narrow apartment, located just a few minutes outside of the nation’s capital in Bucheon, is now somewhat of an icon itself as the backdrop to nearly all their videos including the hugely popular “K-Pop Mondays” series. The Stawskis give us a closer look at what makes this modern Korean living space their home sweet home, away from home.

1) We’ve never seen air conditioners built into the wall before we came to Korea. Totally blew our minds.

2) We didn’t like how our walls looked boring, so we went to Daiso (다이소) and bought a set of three weird animals, and put them on their sides and upside down. Probably because we’re weird.

3) We got this done in Lotte World. We like how Simon has blue eyes (he doesn’t) and how Martina has dark brown hair (nope!).

4) This is where Simon does his work when Martina’s at school teaching. It’s his Man Space. He claimed it for his own. Peed on it like a dog (no, not really). It’s his! Martina keeps on trying to claim it for her own, though, by putting stuff like plants and pictures and hand cream on it.

5) Jesus is our homeboy.

6) The upstairs loft is where we throw our stuff when we’re too lazy to clean anything. Well, more like where Simon throws his stuff and where Martina scolds him for throwing his stuff. It’s also the place we frantically clean whenever we have guests about to come over!

7) Our friend from England brought us a calendar from his last trip. We occasionally write stuff on it. Huzzah! There’s also a squad of robot cutouts below it, because robots rule!


8) We got that couch when the business below us on the 4th floor shut down and threw out all of their furniture. Score! The couch is huge and comfy, and best of all, free!
Oh and yes, that is our remote taped to our couch. In his younger years, the remote thought it would be fun for him to hang out in sketchy areas without letting us know, like the cracks of the sofa, underneath the TV stand, or in the refrigerator.
This resulted in many hours of our time wasted in trying to find him, calling out his name in vain. We decided to put up with it no more, so now he remains taped to the couch.

9) Our tiny kitchen/sink/stove/dish rack/washing machine/everything. One of the reasons we barely cook in Korea is because we don’t have enough room to do so. How many times we have we tried to prepare some food and had it slip into the sink, we don’t know… but we’ve stopped trying.

10) That’s Spudgy tail. He’s half Pekingese, half dragon (hence the green tail). He’s the landlord. Gotta pay him with tummy rubs every month. Quite demanding little bugger, he is.

Oh boy. Another GD&TOP video! Hooray!

And we picked the romantic-esque one, just in time for Valentine’s Day! Great success!

Seriously, we did not plan on doing three GD&TOP videos. We knew we had to do High High when it first came out because it seemed to fresh. “Knock Out” we delayed doing until the requests became overwhelming. We liked that song, yeah, but didn’t want to seem overly biased. This week, though, we got something close to 2000 requests for Baby Goodnight. The others added up to barely 1500. Bah!

Anyhow, somebody please, please tell us what TOP put in that girl’s drink. We slowed it down, tried looking at it frame by frame, but it’s indiscernable. We were joking when we hinted at it being a roofie, but we can’t figure out what it’s supposed to be.

A pearl? Olive? Anyone?

We don’t put stuff in our champagne when we drink it.

We…just…drink it. Otherwise, we gotta say that this is an awesome video. Awesome. You don’t really see well shot or well thought out videos lately, but this one’s really artsy for a Kpop Video. Seriously.

We mentioned Top wiping the bottle dissolving into the girl wiping her leg.

There’s also the scene where GD is pulling his jacket up onto his sleeping girlfriend, but right before that it looks like her leg, and it looks like her skirt is being pulled down. Instead, it’s the jacket being pulled up. First you’re thinking it’s raunchy, but then you realize it’s gentlemanly and caring. That’s really awesome for a Kpop video. Really.

Bravo to whoever directed that video.

Sadly, though, this isn’t really our kind of song.

R&B songs are so…90′s. We didn’t mind MBLAQ’s “Cry,” though. That was an R&B-ish song that really impressed us. We wish that GD&TOP would have done a video for “OH YEAH” instead, because that song’s awesome.

In fact, it’s probably our favorite song from the entire album, and there’s no video for it! I think that’s what’s really impressive about the album: usually, the songs we review are great, but they’re the best songs on the album, where the rest of the songs are just ok.

GD&TOP’s album is the first kpop album we reviewed that we predominantly like all of the songs for.

Anyhow, we recommend the album highly.

If you’re interested, you can buy GD&TOP’s Album by clicking the link here. And it ships internationally. Sweet!