Korean Apartment Management Fees: What Gwallibi Actually Covers

Korean apartment complex with numbered towers, where residents pay monthly apartment management fees

You found an apartment. The monthly rent is settled. Then the first bill arrives, and it is not rent — it is gwallibi (관리비), and it is a document with about twenty line items on it, none of them in English. Korean apartment management fees are the part of Korean housing that nobody warns foreign … Read more