Naked showers

My friend Julie invited us to visit a jimjilbang (Korean family-oriented sauna) with her english club this past weekend.
It was a really unique experience.  We went to the front desk and the woman checked us in. She looked at me and looked like she was trying to figure out if they had any sauna outfits for giants. Eventually she found one that was a "free" size for me.  Then she gave each of us keys and we placed our shoes into lockers.  We then went to another locker room and used the same key to put away all our street clothes and changed into the sauna outfits. Julie and the club members had  bought food and booked a private room. While we were changing into our sauna outfits, there were a bunch of naked Korean women and girls walking around.

I only like to see family naked not strangers.

After changing, we went upstairs to the larger community area. There were people lounging around, watching tv or just talking quietly with their family members.

Thank God they were not naked!

As we walked across the large floor area, we received a lot of whispers and stares. They were surprised to see a white and Black woman there. For most of them, it was their first time seeing someone of another race.
Once we were in the private room, we had a very nice time. We ate and socialized with the other english club members and  enjoyed ourselves.

About an hour after we got there, the members suggested we go into the hot sauna rooms.
There were two rooms. One that had a temperature of  75 c and the other was 120 c.
We wanted to start off low so we went to the "cool" room.
There were hot rocks on the floor and you had to walk across the hot rocks in order to get to a corner where you sat on small wooden clogs and basically just sat there while the heat made you sweat all of the toxins out of your body.

We were able to sit there for 30 minutes and felt very proud of ourselves....until there was a loud sound!
A large barge of hot metal coal was slid very slowly into the middle of the room and it increased the temperature IMMEDIATELY.  I honestly felt like we were being barbequed. We were unknowingly slabs of ribs and next they would ask us to lather our bodies with a tangy, barbecue-flavored lotion.

After we left that room, we went to wash off the sweat at the public showers.
My friend and I were the only foreigners in the entire sauna.
We huddled our naked bodies under one water sprout, sharing the same soap and encouraging each other to lather and rinse FASTER! The Korean women were fascinated by our pink and brown naked bodies. And we were fascinated by much closer you feel to your friend after you have seen her naked in a public shower after being goggled by about 25 Korean women.

Finally we got finished, got dressed and finished chatting with the english club.
We caught a ride home and will have a story to tell about how admired we were once in a public bathroom.

This is what the other women were doing in the shower, lol.