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You’d think someone from South Korea, where winter temperatures regularly dip below freezing, would have no trouble handling a little air-conditioning.<\/p>\n
But apparently, Singapore’s air-con is a different kind of cold.<\/p>\n
Just ask Korean CNA news presenter Grace Shin, who’s been living in Singapore for more than two years.<\/p>\n
Despite being no stranger to freezing temperatures, Grace says she still cannot tahan<\/em> how cold our indoor spaces can get.<\/p>\n And it’s gotten to the point where she actually has to step outside into Singapore’s sweltering heat just to warm up.<\/p>\n Yes, really.<\/p>\n In a recent Instagram video, Grace asked her Singaporean followers and fellow expats how they manage to work in such heavily air-conditioned environments.<\/p>\n “Are you guys really okay working indoors with such strong AC? Is it just me?” she wondered.<\/p>\n Grace revealed that she’d just finished presenting two back-to-back bulletins for Asia Now<\/em> when she found herself shivering from the cold.<\/p>\n “I kid you not, 30 minutes in, I was shivering. I could feel the cold all the way to my bones,” she shared.<\/p>\n And this wasn’t some one-off experience.<\/p>\n In fact, Grace has developed a little routine to help herself warm up after every studio session.<\/p>\n “All I could think of was, ‘Okay, I need to go for a walk, I need to go for a walk,'” she recalled.<\/p>\n “And that’s been my routine every single time I present in studio. I need to go outside for at least five minutes, get some sun on me, and feel warm again,” she added.<\/p>\n Imagine needing to escape into Singapore’s afternoon heat because your workplace is too cold.<\/p>\n Talk about a role reversal.<\/p>\n Grace also revealed that she’d been falling sick frequently and wondered whether the freezing studio might have something to do with it.<\/p>\n “I hope this is not what’s contributing to me falling sick all the time,” she said.<\/p>\n But before anyone thinks she’s declaring war on air-conditioning, Grace was quick to clarify that she actually appreciates it.<\/p>\n Just maybe not quite so much of it.<\/p>\n “AC, like, I love it. I’m so grateful for it, but at the same time, it’s just so cold,” she said.<\/p>\n In her Instagram caption, Grace admitted that even after more than two years in Singapore, she still hasn’t quite acclimatised to our indoor temperatures.<\/p>\n “To my Singaporean friends and everyone who’s lived here for years\u2026 HOW do you do it?!” she asked.<\/p>\n Well, Grace, you’re definitely not alone.<\/p>\n It turns out other people who’ve lived in Singapore for years are still struggling with our notoriously chilly air-con.<\/p>\n One commenter revealed that even after a decade here, the cold still gets to them.<\/p>\n “I’ve been here for 10 years and am still not used to it. I bring my hot waterbag and a shawl into the studio to keep warm!” they wrote.<\/p>\n A hot water bag. In Singapore.<\/p>\n Who would’ve thought surviving the office would require winter essentials?<\/p>\n Another commenter, however, reckoned that Singaporeans have simply gotten used to the cold.<\/p>\n “I think we locals are quite used to it. Some want the AC to be colder,” they wrote.<\/p>\n The commenter also pointed out that the temperature difference between air-conditioned spaces and the outdoors can sometimes exceed 10 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n 8days.sg has reached out to Grace for more information but has not received a response at press time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n