Korean Housing Rental System Explained

๐Ÿ  Korean Housing Rental System Explained (Super Practical Guide)
ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ด์‚ฌยท์ง‘ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์™„์ „ ํ•ด์„ค (์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์‹ค์ „์šฉ)

Finding a home in Korea can feel confusing at first โ€” not because itโ€™s unsafe, but because the system is different from most countries. This guide is written for foreign visitors, students, and expats who want a calm, clear, and realistic explanation โ€” including the problems foreigners actually run into in real life.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ง‘ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ œ๋„๋Š” ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ฝค ์ž˜ ์ •๋น„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, โ€œ์ „์„ธ/๋ฐ˜์ „์„ธ/ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž/๊ฐฑ์‹ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๊ถŒโ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐœ๋…์ด ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ์ •๋ง ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋Š” ๊ด€๊ด‘์•ˆ๋‚ด์„œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ˜•์‹์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•  ๋•Œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์จ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ค์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jeonse (์ „์„ธ) Ban-Jeonse (๋ฐ˜์ „์„ธ) Monthly Rent (์›”์„ธ) Brokerage Fee (์ค‘๊ฐœ๋ณด์ˆ˜) Renewal Right (๊ณ„์•ฝ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๊ถŒ) Fixed Date (ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž)
Infographic explaining Jeonse, Ban-Jeonse, Monthly Rent, brokerage fees, and contract rights in Korea for foreigners.
Who is this guide for?
Visitors, travelers, students, expats, and anyone who might rent a home in Korea.
KR: ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌํ–‰์ž, ์œ ํ•™์ƒ, ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ง์žฅ์ธ, ์žฅยท๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ.

1. The Three Main Rental Types
ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ 3๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ž„๋Œ€ ๋ฐฉ์‹

Korea has three common rental types. Understanding these is the first key step.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ์ž„๋Œ€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ 3๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ๋‚˜๋‰˜๊ณ , ์ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์ง‘ ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์‰ฌ์›Œ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์™œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜์ง€?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค, ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฅ๋‹จ์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ โ€˜์„ ํƒ์ง€โ€™๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ํŽธํ•ด์š”.

โ‘  Jeonse (์ „์„ธ)

No monthly rent. You pay a large deposit and live there. At the end of the contract, you get the deposit back.

KR: ์›”์„ธ ์—†์ด ํฐ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์‹œ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์˜ˆ์š”.

  • Feels strange to foreigners because deposits are big.
  • Think of it as a โ€œdeposit-based leaseโ€ unique to Korea.
  • ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋†€๋ผ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ์ด ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ์€ํ–‰ ์ด์ž/ํˆฌ์ž ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์šฉํ•˜๊ณ , ์„ธ์ž…์ž๋Š” ์›”์„ธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์—†์ด ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ‘ก Ban-Jeonse (๋ฐ˜์ „์„ธ)

A mix of Jeonse and rent: smaller deposit + smaller monthly rent.

KR: ์ „์„ธ์™€ ์›”์„ธ์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ˜•ํƒœ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€์‹  ์›”์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ „์„ธ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ๋ถ€๋‹ด๋  ๋•Œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ธ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” โ€œ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ๋†’์„์ˆ˜๋ก ์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง„๋‹คโ€๋Š” ๊ณต์‹์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์„ฑ๋ฆฝํ•ด์š”.

โ‘ข Monthly Rent (์›”์„ธ)

Small deposit + pay rent every month. Most common for studios, officetels, and short-term stays.

KR: ์†Œ์•ก ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ + ๋งค๋‹ฌ ์ž„๋Œ€๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›๋ฃธ/์˜คํ”ผ์Šคํ…”/๋‹จ๊ธฐ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ์— ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํ•ด์š”.

  • ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋‚ฎ์•„ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ ํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(maintenance fee)๊ฐ€ ๋ณ„๋„๋กœ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ผญ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
Rule of thumb
If you want lower monthly cost and can afford a deposit โ†’ Jeonse. If you want flexibility and lower deposit โ†’ Ban-Jeonse / Monthly Rent.
KR: ํฐ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์—ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ์›” ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ „์„ธ. ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์ด ๋ถ€๋‹ด๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์œ ์—ฐํ•œ ์ด๋™์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ˜์ „์„ธ/์›”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2. Brokerage Fee (Real Estate Agent Commission)
์ค‘๊ฐœ๋ณด์ˆ˜(๋ณต๋น„) ๊ณ„์‚ฐ & ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ํ”ผํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„

In Korea, brokerage fees are capped by law and depend on the lease value. Your agent can negotiate within the cap, but cannot exceed it.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐœ๋ณด์ˆ˜(๋ณต๋น„)๋Š” ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ƒํ•œ ์š”์œจ์ด ์ •ํ•ด์ ธ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ฆ‰, ์ค‘๊ฐœ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์Œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋น„์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ , ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธˆ์•ก์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ โ€˜์ตœ๋Œ€์น˜โ€™๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ํ˜„์‹ค์—์„œ๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์ œ๋„๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋ชฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ƒํ•œ์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•ด ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์ข…์ข… ์žˆ์–ด์š”.

How itโ€™s calculated

Fee = Lease Value ร— Capped Rate
Lease value usually means: deposit (and sometimes deposit + rent-converted value).

KR: ์ค‘๊ฐœ๋ณด์ˆ˜ = ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ธˆ์•ก ร— ์ƒํ•œ์š”์œจ(%). ๋ฐ˜์ „์„ธ/์›”์„ธ๋Š” โ€œ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ + (์›”์„ธ ร— ํ™˜์‚ฐ๊ณ„์ˆ˜)โ€๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ธˆ์•ก์„ ์‚ฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŒ: โ€œ๋ณต๋น„๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌป๊ธฐ ์ „์—, โ€œ๋ฒ•์ • ์ƒํ•œ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋กœ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”?โ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์œผ๋ฉด ๊ณผ๋‹ค ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ข‹์•„์š”.

Common foreigner problems
1) Agent asks for more than the legal cap. 2) Agent adds random โ€œservice feesโ€ that arenโ€™t brokerage. 3) Agent asks for payment even when contract is not signed.
KR: ์ƒํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ์š”๊ตฌ, โ€˜์ด์‚ฌ๋น„/๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Œ€ํ–‰๋น„โ€™ ๋“ฑ ๋ผ์›Œ ๋„ฃ๊ธฐ, ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ์„ฑ์‚ฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ๋น„์šฉ ์š”๊ตฌ โ†’ ์‹ค์ œ ์ƒ๋‹ด์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํ•œ ๋ถ„์Ÿ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. Contract Renewal Right (โ€œ2+2 yearsโ€)
๊ณ„์•ฝ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๊ถŒ: ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ํฌ์ธํŠธ

Koreaโ€™s Housing Lease Protection Act gives tenants the right to request a one-time 2-year renewal after the first 2-year contract โ€” unless the landlord has a valid reason (ex: moving in). Rent/deposit increases at renewal are capped at 5%.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด 2๋…„์ด๊ณ , ์„ธ์ž…์ž๊ฐ€ ์›ํ•˜๋ฉด 1ํšŒ์— ํ•œํ•ด 2๋…„ ๋” ์—ฐ์žฅ ์š”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” 2+2๋…„) ์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ์ด ์‹ค๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ๋“ฑ โ€˜์ •๋‹น ์‚ฌ์œ โ€™๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ํ•œ, ์„ธ์ž…์ž์˜ ๊ฐฑ์‹  ์š”๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์š”. ๊ฐฑ์‹  ์‹œ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ/์›”์„ธ ์ธ์ƒ๋„ ์›์น™์ ์œผ๋กœ 5% ์ด๋‚ด๋กœ ์ œํ•œ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

What foreigners often misunderstand

  • You are not automatically kicked out after 2 years.
  • You can request renewal once (total up to 4 years).
  • โ€œLandlord will live hereโ€ is a legal reason to refuse โ€” but abuse exists.

KR: โ€œ2๋…„์ด๋ฉด ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๋Š” ์˜คํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ง€๋งŒ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1ํšŒ 2๋…„ ์—ฐ์žฅ ์š”๊ตฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ(์ด 4๋…„). ์ž„๋Œ€์ธ ์‹ค๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์œ ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์•…์šฉ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋„ ์žˆ์–ด ์ฆ๋น™/๋Œ€ํ™” ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์š”.

4. Fixed Date (ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž) & Move-in Report (์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ )
๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ 2์ข… ์„ธํŠธ

To protect your deposit, Korea uses a system where your lease is officially time-stamped (Fixed Date / ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž) and your residence is registered (Move-in Report / ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ ). These are what give you priority if the home is sold or auctioned.

์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ์—์„œ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š” โ€˜ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์•ˆ์ „์žฅ์น˜โ€™์˜ˆ์š”. ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ ๋กœ โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์„ธ์ž…์žโ€์ž„์„ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๊ณ , ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ๊ณต์  ๋‚ ์งœ๋ฅผ ์ฐ์–ด๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜น์‹œ๋ผ๋„ ์ง‘์ด ๊ฒฝ๋งค/๋งค๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ์ด ๋‘ ์š”๊ฑด์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์„ธ์ž…์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ์„ ์šฐ์„  ๋ณ€์ œ ๋ฐ›์„ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Fixed Date (ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž)

A government โ€œdate stampโ€ on your lease contract. It helps you claim your deposit first in an auction.

KR: ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์„ผํ„ฐ/๋“ฑ๊ธฐ์†Œ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ๋‚ ์งœ ๋„์žฅ์„ ์ฐ๋Š” ์ œ๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ๋งค ์‹œ ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ์šฐ์„  ๋ณ€์ œ ์ˆœ์œ„์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Move-in Report (์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ )

Registering your address at the local Community Center (์ฃผ๋ฏผ์„ผํ„ฐ). This gives you legal tenant status.

KR: ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์ฃผ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋“ฑ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ์ ˆ์ฐจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ/์—ฌ๊ถŒ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ , ๋น„์ž์™€๋Š” ๋ณ„๊ฐœ๋กœ ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์˜ˆ์š”.

Critical timing tip
Your deposit protection (priority) starts from the next day after you have both moved in and completed your move-in report (and fixed date if applicable).
KR: ์ธ๋„(์ž…์ฃผ) + ์ „์ž…(+ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž) ์š”๊ฑด์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋’ค โ€˜์ต์ผ 0์‹œโ€™๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋Œ€ํ•ญ๋ ฅ/์šฐ์„ ๋ณ€์ œ๊ถŒ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์ž…์ฃผ ๋‹น์ผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ  + ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž๊นŒ์ง€ ๋๋‚ด์„ธ์š”.

5. Real Cases Foreigners Face (Top 10)
์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฒ•๋ฌดยท์ƒ๋‹ด์„ผํ„ฐ์— ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์ ‘์ˆ˜๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€

  1. Deposit return delayed. Landlord says โ€œsoon,โ€ but months pass.
  2. Overcharged brokerage fee. Foreigner didnโ€™t know the cap.
  3. Hidden maintenance costs. โ€œOther feesโ€ not clearly written.
  4. Mold / leakage disputes. Who pays for repairs?
  5. Landlord enters without notice. Not allowed unless urgent.
  6. Confusion about visa/address. Many think move-in report affects immigration (it doesnโ€™t).
  7. Furniture size mismatch. Bed/desk doesnโ€™t fit; no pre-measuring allowed.
  8. Fake โ€œowner.โ€ Contract signed with someone not the legal landlord.
  9. Renewal refused for โ€œowner move-in,โ€ then re-rented.
  10. Sublease issues. Renting out a room/Airbnb against contract.

KR ์š”์•ฝ(์‹ค์ œ ์ƒ๋‹ด ๋นˆ๋„ ๋†’์€ ์ˆœ): 1) ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜ ์ง€์—ฐ/๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ 2) ๋ณต๋น„ ๊ณผ๋‹ค ์ฒญ๊ตฌ 3) ์ˆจ์€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„/์ถ”๊ฐ€๋น„์šฉ ๋ถ„์Ÿ 4) ๋ˆ„์ˆ˜ยท๊ณฐํŒก์ดยทํ•˜์ž ์ฑ…์ž„ ๋‹คํˆผ 5) ์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ/๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ธ์˜ ๋ฌด๋‹จ ์ถœ์ž… 6) ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ ยท์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก ๊ด€๋ จ ์˜คํ•ด 7) ์‹ค์ธก/๊ฐ€๊ตฌ ๋ฐ˜์ž… ๋ฌธ์ œ 8) ๋ช…์˜ยท์œ„์ž„ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ(์ง„์งœ ์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ) 9) ์‹ค๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์œ ๋กœ ๊ฐฑ์‹  ๊ฑฐ์ ˆ ํ›„ ์žฌ์ž„๋Œ€ 10) ๋ฌด๋‹จ ์ „๋Œ€/์—์–ด๋น„์•ค๋น„ ๋“ฑ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์œ„๋ฐ˜

When in doubt, do this first:
Ask for a copy of the ownership record (๋“ฑ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋“ฑ๋ณธ) and confirm the landlord name.
KR: โ€œ๋“ฑ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋“ฑ๋ณธ ํ™•์ธ โ†’ ์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋Œ€์กฐโ€๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ํฐ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์€ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

6. Foreign-Friendly Checklist
๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ „/๋‹น์ผ/์ž…์ฃผ ํ›„ ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

Before signing
๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ „

  • Check the title/ownership record (๋“ฑ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋“ฑ๋ณธ).
  • Ask if prior tenantโ€™s deposit is fully returned.
  • Confirm maintenance fee range.
  • Take a video tour if you canโ€™t visit in person.
  • ๋“ฑ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋“ฑ๋ณธ์—์„œ ์†Œ์œ ์ž/๊ทผ์ €๋‹น/๊ฐ€์••๋ฅ˜ ๋“ฑ ํ™•์ธ
  • ๊ธฐ์กด ์„ธ์ž…์ž ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ด ๋๋‚œ ์ƒํƒœ์ธ์ง€ ํ™•์ธ
  • ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๊ณผ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋ก
  • ํ˜„์žฅ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์–ด๋ ค์šฐ๋ฉด ์˜์ƒ ํˆฌ์–ด/์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ™”์ƒ ์š”์ฒญ

On contract day
๊ณ„์•ฝ ๋‹น์ผ

  • Confirm brokerage fee cap and write amount clearly.
  • Make sure landlord name matches ownership record.
  • Get Fixed Date (ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž) immediately after signing.
  • ๋ณต๋น„ ์ƒํ•œ ํ™•์ธ ํ›„ ๊ธˆ์•ก์„ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ๋ช…์‹œ
  • ์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ ์ด๋ฆ„/์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ๋’ค์ž๋ฆฌ(๋˜๋Š” ๋ฒ•์ธ๋ช…) ๋Œ€์กฐ
  • ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์งํ›„ ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž ๋ฐ›์•„๋‘๊ธฐ

After moving in
์ž…์ฃผ ํ›„

  • File Move-in Report (์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ ) ASAP.
  • Photo-record every room state on day 1.
  • Keep rent transfer receipts.
  • ์ž…์ฃผ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ (์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ)
  • ์ฒซ๋‚  ํ•˜์ž/์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์ง„ยท์˜์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ก
  • ์›”์„ธ/๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ์ด์ฒด ๋‚ด์—ญ ๋ณด๊ด€

7. Useful English Phrases (with KR)
๋ฐ”๋กœ ์จ๋จน๋Š” ์‹ค์ „ ํ‘œํ˜„

  • โ€œIs the deposit fully protected?โ€ โ€” ๋ณด์ฆ๊ธˆ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋˜๋‚˜์š”?
  • โ€œWhat is the exact brokerage fee and rate cap?โ€ โ€” ์ค‘๊ฐœ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ƒํ•œ๊ณผ ๊ธˆ์•ก์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ์ฃ ?
  • โ€œPlease write every extra cost on the contract.โ€ โ€” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ์จ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
  • โ€œI want a bilingual contract if possible.โ€ โ€” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜๋ฌธ ๋ณ‘๊ธฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ ๋ถ€ํƒํ•ด์š”.
  • โ€œWhere do I file the move-in report and fixed date?โ€ โ€” ์ „์ž…์‹ ๊ณ /ํ™•์ •์ผ์ž ์–ด๋””์„œ ํ•˜๋‚˜์š”?

ํŒ: ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ/์ง‘์ฃผ์ธ๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” โ€œ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ์จ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”(Write it on the contract, please)โ€๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์•ˆ์ „์žฅ์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

8. Final Thoughts
๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ

Koreaโ€™s rental system may feel unfamiliar, but once you understand the rules, it becomes very manageable โ€” and in many ways, well-protected for tenants. If this guide helps even one traveler avoid confusion or a bad contract, it has done its job.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ž„๋Œ€์ฐจ ์ œ๋„๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์—” ๋‚ฏ์„ค์ง€๋งŒ, ์›๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์„ธ์ž…์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฝค ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ํŽธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธ€์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ง‘์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด๋ผ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ด์š”. ์ฃผ๋ณ€ ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์นœ๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์ค˜๋„ ์ข‹์•„์š” ๐Ÿ™‚

Disclaimer: This guide is for practical understanding, not personal legal advice. If you face a dispute, contact a local legal aid center or a licensed attorney.
KR: ๋ณธ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์  ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋•๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๋ฒ•๋ฅ  ์ž๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„์Ÿ์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ณต๋‹จ/์ง€์ž์ฒด ์ƒ๋‹ด/๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ ๋“ฑ ๊ณต์‹ ์ฑ„๋„์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์„ธ์š”.

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