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When the lights go down on the Bizwell.

Officetels, known to many as studio apartments, are a popular living situation for college students with boarding needs, the recently divorced, and native English teachers. The name is associated with another use for these spaces in Korea, as small offices.

The coming of age experience of living independently outside the parent's abode is timed much different in Korea. In America, for example, individuals living at home beyond the mid twenties are seen as lazy, unsuccessful dependents. For this reason, young adults move into their own dwellings as early as 18. Korean society employs a much different system, which relies on the necessity of marriage. The social norm dictates that each child will live with their parents until they are married. At which time, the new couple's parents will have purchased an apartment and furnished it for them.