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[kateinkorea]

Does anyone know anything about cheap storage in Seoul, for a short period of time (maybe up to two months) in between contracts.

I have not much to store but enough to be a nuisance to burden friends with. (microwave, clothes, rice cooker, fan, paper, books etc.)

[captain kirk]

I was in Cheonan, an hour south of Seoul and asking the same question last year; what to do with my stuff while I go to Thailand for a couple of months? This question comes up on the forum here regularly.
You can, supposedly, put your stuff into a study room that Korean Uni students rent for a couple hundred thousand won a month. It's a little room they use to study in. There's a guy at the door who keeps an eye on who comes and goes. I've never done this.
Or you can leave it with friends.
Or you can ask your co-workers if they'd mind putting a box or two in their place.
What I did was ask the boss to phone around asking the moving companies. This was his idea when I explained my problem. So I was gone two months and paid 200,000 won or so. When I left I gave them a hundred thousand and the rest when I got back. The nice thing about it was that I could stay away another month, if I'd wanted, the stuff was safe and not going anywhere. They had a locked facility out in the country a little out of the city. And one of their move trucks came to pick up all the stuff and tote it over there.
Another nice thing about this method is that I could return to Korea, look for a job, then go down to the moving place near Cheonan and have the moving company drive the stuff to the next city. I had a lot of stuff, and a motorbike, and got back in the middle of winter. So that was good. Just had to take to Thailand what I would also need once I got back to job hunt. Such as original diploma, resume, etc.
By the way I got some great work pants in Thailand. So I didn't need to get back to the storage to go job hunting when back from Thailand. On Kao san road there are a couple of tailor shops. You pick the cloth, they measure you. I think a pair of pants was 15 bucks 'contracted to sew' that way. And they were ready the next day. It was the last thing I did before I left.

[dulouz]

But I want a big steak dinner at The Nashville. You can have it for 2 months.

Its two meters by two meters, locked but outside. In Iteawon.

[kateinkorea]

Thanks for all your replies...hopefully if anyone has any other ideas they will also throw them out there. I am not finished my contract until the end of October but am trying to find something before I am caught without a plan....so I will look further into specifics once push comes to shove.
I just assumed that so many people must have to deal with this if they do like me and go some place like Thailand for a between contract holiday.

thanks
Kate

[amanda114]

I would like to bump this topic

I too need storage and a moving company for the end of the month. I did find one place but it was going to cost 80,000 w to take my things and then 30,000w per day. I dont have a lot of stuff so I was thinking this was a lot of money. So if anyone can give me some more contact numbers I would appreciate it.

Amanda

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