What is a Jjimjilbang? And what to Expect...
Living in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, we get to experience a vast amount of different cultures, their customs and traditions. One in particular I've come to enjoy is going to a Jjimjilbang (pronounced "J-jim-jil-bang") also known as the Korean Spa. As someone who loves to travel, I have thoroughly enjoyed spas thoughout the world. I've visited indoor water spas in Germany getting a massage with nothing covering me but heat lamps, been scrubbed with ground-up cocoa beans around my pregnant belly in Mexico and soaked in clay baths in Calistoga. I frequent Glenn Ivy hot springs where I coat my body in red dirt mud while basking in the sun for hours. As a fan of natural hot springs in general throughout the west coast, I sometimes have had to hike 15 miles to get to the naturally volcano heated water baths at times-even surrounded in snow and ice. I've also been an annual pass holder to Burke Williams (a swankier upper class spa) and was 'forced...