A mind in the toilet

Sim Jae-Duck, of South Korea, was born 74 years ago in a rest room. He has spent most of his life obsessed with the cleanliness and peacefulness of rest rooms. While his recent construction of his toilet -shaped house may seem comical, Sim's interest in the topic actually has a serious side.

"Epidemics caused by poor sanitation worldwide cost two million lives a year, he said. Worldwide, 2.6 billion people live without toilets. Elsewhere, poorly designed flush toilets waste vast amounts of potential drinking water, he added."

His house was designed by Koki-woong and will open to the public on November 11, to mark the launch of Sim's brainchild, the World Toilet Association, an organization dedicated to providing clean toilets worldwide.



While this might sound like a unique quest, there is a similar organization already, based out of Singapore, known as the World Toilet Organization. I think that the underlying goals of both organizations are laudable. However, I think it might be easier to take their work more seriously if they didn't have the word 'toilet' in their names.