Gird Yourself For the Jimjilbang

Dallas residents who do not read the Sunday New York Times probably a) pine for Paul Kix, and b) missed this story in yesterday’s Sunday Styles section. It’s about Inspa World, a Queens version of a jimjilbang. What’s a jimjilbang? “[A] traditional Korean 24-hour bathhouse where families soak, steam and eat together, and sometimes even sleep over.” The creator of Inspa World said he hopes to plop 19 more jimjilbangs all over the country, the next one being in Dallas. By now you may have guessed that I like the word “jimjilbang.”