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gjk08
Joined: 11 Aug 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:02 pm Post subject: How hard is it to find an apartment? |
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My housing is only for 3 months, and after the 3 mnths the company i will be working for pays $300,000 won stipend for rent and up to 5,000,000 won for a key deposit. I will be in Seoul, and will not need anything luxurious. Any ideas of what it's gonna cost me? I just want to be prepared! |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:55 am Post subject: |
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With that money, you can get a pretty nice one room. Granted it will not be great, but it will be your own place. |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:58 am Post subject: |
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weatherman wrote: |
With that money, you can get a pretty nice one room. Granted it will not be great, but it will be your own place. |
With the possibility of cable, and regular hot water. No guarantee on how loud your neighbors will be though. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:05 am Post subject: |
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katydid wrote: |
With the possibility of cable, and regular hot water. No guarantee on how loud your neighbors will be though. |
I know where you're coming from Katydid, and I can say that in general the walls are pretty adequate outside of paper constructed dorms in South Korea. And yes, hot water, air-con, and cable.. |
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Squid
Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Sunny Anyang
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Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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gjk08, I hope you have modest tastes in dwellings on 5m key money. I've posted before about exorbitant "key money" charges, which basically goes into a term deposit for the landlord to make the interest as income, but that is'nt your problem- 5m is laughable and won't get you a doghouse- prove me wrong- please!
My wife and I just shelled out 10m key money and pay 200,000 a month for an apartment which is old, was not clean, and has most of the windows dropping out...ahhh first home bliss!
Best of luck!
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