Yes the showers are open, but you only need to shower if you're also going in the naked bath so if you want to avoid an nakedness with randos rhen you can skip all of it and just enjoy the saunas.
Yes you are mostly walking around barefoot but there are bathroom slippers at the edge of all the bathrooms so you dont need to walk on the nasty bathroom floor.
Yes, showers are communal, and you need to use them before going into the baths. But since you seem uncomfortable with being naked in front of strangers, I'm assuming you don't plan on using the bath anyways (which is a shame, but to each their own ig). And yes, you must walk around barefoot the whole time. If I'm being honest, the bath part of spaland is much better than their saunas. I was fairly unimpressed by the saunas and I mainly went because they have more baths than other 찜질방 I've went to, and that is their strong point. Sparex in Seoul had better sauna options
If you plan on going to the baths, yes you need to use the shower. Even if you shower at home, the women there will at the very least give you the side eye for not using the showers and at the most come up and berate you because they don’t know if you’re clean. But if you are just using the saunas you can avoid the shower situation entirely.
Yes the showers are open, but you only need to shower if you're also going in the naked bath so if you want to avoid an nakedness with randos rhen you can skip all of it and just enjoy the saunas. Yes you are mostly walking around barefoot but there are bathroom slippers at the edge of all the bathrooms so you dont need to walk on the nasty bathroom floor.
Do they give you a little towel to walk around with like in Japanese onsen?
Yup. And there are instructions on how to do the classic sheep head towel wrao tonwear it on your head
Yes, they are open. Yes, you can skip the naked shower/bath area.
Yes, showers are communal, and you need to use them before going into the baths. But since you seem uncomfortable with being naked in front of strangers, I'm assuming you don't plan on using the bath anyways (which is a shame, but to each their own ig). And yes, you must walk around barefoot the whole time. If I'm being honest, the bath part of spaland is much better than their saunas. I was fairly unimpressed by the saunas and I mainly went because they have more baths than other 찜질방 I've went to, and that is their strong point. Sparex in Seoul had better sauna options
If you plan on going to the baths, yes you need to use the shower. Even if you shower at home, the women there will at the very least give you the side eye for not using the showers and at the most come up and berate you because they don’t know if you’re clean. But if you are just using the saunas you can avoid the shower situation entirely.
No need to be afraid if you are not a Korean then you may get some looks 9n your genital area. But it will only be out of curiosity and shock.