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[oatmeal]

One rooms are generally in a multi-floor/multi-room building (2 or more floors or if it's just a 1 floor one room, there are usually rows of rooms side by side). Does anyone know what a room for rent that is a semi-detached house or room that has no adjacent rooms above and below and to the sides called?

I asked a lady in town and she said something like, "Il bang", which I think means 1 room, but not as in "one room", but as a room that is almost like a house in of itself but not quite big like one.

I'd like to know if there is a korean word for this sort of room for rent so that it is easier to ask rather than having to explain myself for 5 minutes in broken korean and easy english with body actions to describe it lol.

[Popocatepetl]

Gositel? officetel?

[Hokie21]

Have you looked at any Korean real estate sites online? Lot's of apartment directories with pictures and in English.

[Fox]

Perhaps you could describe it as a 단독 주택? That's a whole house, though, not merely a single room.

[Underwaterbob]

컨테이너하우스?

[spicy]

i've heard it called "en-suite," but that was a few years ago at a hostel i was at in hyehwa -- not sure if that's the term for an actual residence or if it's just the term for temporary boarding...

[alongway]

[optik404]

You could ask for a rooftop room. But those are usually for poorer people, they don't have any form of heating.

[alongway]

[byrddogs]

[schwa]

I doubt such situations are common in large cities but elsewhere a "small jutaek" might convey something like you're looking for. A little outbuilding, probably older construction (but make sure it has modern plumbing), might even have a bit of a courtyard. Lots of (poorer) Koreans live in situations like this & you could too. Fair bit costlier than a standard one-room though.