Having grown up in Korea and lived in America, Canada, and the UK, one thing I consistently noticed about all those Western homes is how dark they are. Most ho

Having grown up in Korea and lived in America, Canada, and the UK, one thing I consistently noticed about all those Western homes is how dark they are. Most homes where I come from have a large, flat lamp in the center of the ceiling of each room that evenly illuminates the entire room. Large spaces may have more than one such lamp. In the past, this was accomplished with a bunch of fluorescent tubes arranged to look like a single large lamp. These days, it's all LED. People also put lamps on the bedside table, above the dining table, and other places they want to accentuate, but it's always in addition to, not instead of, the large ceiling lamp. Most of the American/Western homes I've been to don't have a single bright light in the living room or any bedroom, relying more often on several low-temperature lamps scattered around the space. It looks really nice, it's perfect for watching movies, and it may have been more energy-efficient in the past. But it's just so damn dark, especially if the room doesn't face the sun.