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kangnamdragon · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

If a teacher is given housing allowance and no key money, what should that teacher do? Where does a foreigner find an apartment in Seoul? Is there an online sight, a realator? Who is in this situation?

Drakoi · Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Location: The World

just find someone who can translate for you and hit up all the budongsan's in the area you want to live. Tell them you have no key (bo-jeung-geum) money and your school gives you xxx(housing allowance -100,000 won) per month. They should be able to find you a few things (not great if you're in kangnam). The rent will be the xxx and then you'll still have the extra 100 for utilities and gwai-lo-bi. or however it's pronounced.

Daechidong Waygookin · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject:

Kangnam? With no key money? The rent is gonna be HUGE! Unless you get some real dinky place.

ohfamous · Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Location: Off the beaten path

the OP never said Gangnam specifically. and although daechidong tends to exaggerate facts about anything Gangnam (just because he loves it so much), i must agree with him on this one. i paid 5 mil for key money, 500,000/mo for a nice officetel in yeoksam-dong. a friend living close by was able to get a 0 key money place, but it was 750,000/mo and that was a pretty good deal (new building). a friend in sinsa-dong pays 5mil/620,000.

that said, you can check out prices online, like at www.oneroomiyagi.co.kr (for Gangnam), but i didn't see anything that didn't require key money. you can find more sites by just googling "��". that is, if your friend is looking for just a studio.

however, like drakoi said, the best bet is to just go to the area and walk into every budongsan (�ε��) you see. i don't know how far you'll get with 0 deposit though...