[1] They are separated by gender and typically have hot tubs, showers, Korean traditional kiln saunas, and massage tables.
[3] Walls can be decorated with woods, minerals, crystals, stones, and metals to make the ambient mood and smell more natural.
Afterwards bathers walk into the gender-segregated bathhouse area (children of both genders below seven years of age are free to intermingle) and take a shower.
[8][9] Concerns about the clothes increasing atopy symptoms in patients, or even of accidentally hosting parasites, have been voiced, although evidence was inconclusive.
Intensely hot and dry, it uses traditionally burning wood of pine to heat a domelike kiln made of stone.
The first mention of hanjeungmak, initially referred to as hanjeungso (한증소; 汗蒸所), is found in the Annals of Sejong in the 15th century.