Strange Systems » uxd http://www.strangesystems.com Architecture. User Experience. Exploring the overlap of physical and virtual. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:11:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Culture gap: no 4th floor http://www.strangesystems.com/blog/no-4th-floor.html http://www.strangesystems.com/blog/no-4th-floor.html#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:54:53 +0000 namho http://www.strangesystems.com/?p=912 No 4th Floor

F(ourth) floor is 4th floor in Korea

No 4th Floor

No 13th floor (photo credit: eggrollstan)

The 4th floor in Korea has the same status as the 13th floor does in the US.

The pronunciation for “4″ is “sa” which is the same as the Chinese character for “death”, hence the “F” (for Fourth) instead of “4″ in elevators.

Quite silly really.

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