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[E_athlete]

Yes I actually went there.

Now for me I pay the following:

electric: 24000won
gas: 4000 won

phone: 45000 won (yeah I got carried away the first month )

internet: I havent got the bill for that yet..

[winterfall]

Why didn't you just do the package deal for your phone, internet, and TV. The lowest I've seen so far from a local cable company was 18,000 for a month in Seoul

[bassexpander]

Our electric, gas, garbage, management fee, etc., for this rather spacious 33 pyung 3BR apartment came to 188,000 this past month. Electricity was in the 90,000 range, but we ran the aircon a lot. This was probably the highest month we'll have all year. We don't have to run the heat much in the winter, because the people below us cook themselves so much.

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

I'm heading back for a 6 month stint after 2 years. I don't how inflation has changed things but TV (pretty useless but some European football) was about 5.000 pm, utilities were reasonable maybe 50.000 on average.Unlimited broadband 15.000?

The kicker though was paying 90K for officetel maintenance for those grumpy old snoozers who sit downstairs.

[oldtactics]

I pay about 180,000 a month.

Apartment maintenance fees + internet + cell phone + gas

[crossmr]

IPTV/Internet 38,000
Electricity 30,000
Gas 6,000
Water 6,000
My cell is around 50,000
I don't have a home phone

[ajuma]

Just got the bills so here's the breakdown:

57,000 for electric, maintenance fee and cable (not getting much with standard cable) for a 16 pyeong apt.

11,000 for gas

27,000 for internet (got a free flat screen monitor when we signed up!)

Phone varies between 20 and 40 a month, depending on how much I talk.

[Auslegung]

Here's a link to all my costs, not just utilities: http://jmphry.googlepages.com/costs. It is my website, and this is a shameless plug, but it's all the information I've compiled on all the costs of living here, so I think it's useful.

[runthegauntlet]

I average around 145k a month. 155 when I run the AC a bunch.

~90k for apartment fees and electricity
31 for internet
17 or so for cell phone
3 for gas

[Clockout]

~100,000 won gas, electric, water
~40,000 phone
~13,000 internet

it seems really expensive for the utilities. not sure if there is any way around it. it kind of sucks because they don't tell you that utilities are disportionately more expensive here. it would certainly be a consideration when deciding on jobs.

[AgentM]

[ekul]

As far as I'm concerned the stable fees in the maintenance should be paid for by the school as part of the deal on rent. The only thing that should be payable is water/gas/electric/tv/internet/telephone. Also I'm not sure how many people know it but each building utility bill takes some money for an emergency fund that you should get back when you leave, I'm still struggling to get mine back from my last landlord.

[Preddyfops]

On a side note, how annoying are the gas people? Do they really need to come round every month to read the meter? (In fact I swear my one pops round every two weeks or so.) Surely doing it quarterly would be enough.

How come Korea - being so unabashedly capitalist - has yet to privatise utilities? I hope they never get round to it, but I'm sure it's on the way...

[Clockout]

[AgentM]