Our Coliving Rooms: Kyung Hee, HUFS and Korea University

We run three coliving houses in Seoul, and we run them ourselves — we’re the operator, not an agency listing someone else’s rooms. Each one is within walking distance of a university campus:

House	Beside	Rooms
Kyung Hee University (경희대)	Hoegi / Dongdaemun-gu	Single and twin
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외대)	Same neighbourhood	Single and twin
Korea University (고려대)	Anam	Opening late August 2026 — single rooms

🆕 New house: Korea University, opening late August 2026

The newest one is finishing now, and it’s a bit different from the other two.

The essentials

Three single rooms — no twin rooms in this house

Women only

Three minutes’ walk from Korea University Station, Exit 3 (Line 6)

Third floor, stairs only — there is no lift

Furnished and finished in the same style as our other houses

Opening late August 2026 — taking enquiries now

Where it is, precisely enough: the house sits just off Jongam-ro, near the Hoegi-ro junction, a few minutes north of Korea University Station on Line 6 — the station is signed both 고려대 and 종암, which trips people up when they’re following a map. The campus itself is directly across the main road; Korea University Central Library is a few minutes’ walk from the front door.

Schematic map showing Korea University Station on Line 6, Exit 3, a three-minute walking route across Jongam-ro to the house, with the campus and Central Library opposite

Not to scale — but this is the whole geography · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

Let’s be straight about the stairs, because it’s the one thing that will matter to some people and not at all to others: it’s a third-floor walk-up. If you’re moving in with two large suitcases, that’s a real consideration for one afternoon. After that, what you notice instead is that the subway is three minutes away — which in Seoul housing terms is a trade most people take happily.

Who it suits: students at Korea University, students at the Korea University Language Institute, university staff, and women working nearby who commute through Korea University Station.

When the three rooms are taken, we’ll say so in this article.

What a room actually includes

Rooms come furnished. That means you arrive with luggage and start living, rather than spending your first week buying a bed.

A single room with a bed, a desk with a green lamp and postcards on the wall

Single room · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

Each room has a bed, desk, chair, drawers, an air conditioner and a clothes rail — the aircon matters more than newcomers expect in a Seoul August.

A room with a wall air conditioner, a desk and chair, and a freestanding clothes rail beside the bed

Aircon, desk and hanging space in every room · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

Our other two houses also have twin rooms, which are the cheaper option and the one most fall-semester students take:

A twin room with two desks, two chairs, a dressing table and a bed

Twin room — two desks, and a dressing table · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

The kitchen is the part people actually live in. Full cooking setup, fridge, table — and a washing machine, because Korean flats put laundry in the kitchen or the bathroom rather than a separate utility room.

A shared kitchen with white cabinets, a sink, a teal fridge, a dining table and a yellow curtain

Shared kitchen · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

A washing machine with laundry baskets stacked on top and a drying rack beside it

Laundry, with drying racks — Korean homes rarely have dryers · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

Two details worth pointing out, because they’re the questions we get asked most:

A hallway with a tall lockable personal storage cabinet under a small chandelier

Lockable personal storage, outside the rooms · ⓒ @BalliBalliSeoul

Storage that locks. Shared living raises an obvious question and this is our answer to it — each resident gets a cabinet with a lock, outside the room.

Keypad entry. No physical key changes hands and nothing to lose in a taxi. You get a code, and the code just works — including the day you come back at midnight.

Moving in: someone meets you

You won’t be handed an address and left to work it out.

A manager comes to the house for your move-in, shows you around, explains how things work — the boiler, the laundry, the bins, which key opens your locker — and gets you settled. We arrange it by appointment in advance.

Weekends are the usual slot, and easiest to book
Weekdays are sometimes possible depending on the week — ask and we’ll see what we can do

So when you message us, tell us roughly when you’d arrive in Korea as well as which month you want the room. If your flight lands Saturday morning, we can often have you moved in the same weekend.

Why students choose a house like this

Renting a normal Korean flat as a new arrival is harder than it looks: it usually wants a large deposit, a Korean phone number and often an ARC you don’t have yet. We wrote that up in full — how to find housing in Seoul before you have an ARC — and a coliving room is the usual way around it.

What you get with us specifically:

Furnished — arrive with luggage, not a shopping list
No ARC or Korean phone number needed to move in
Deposits sized for students, not the ₩10,000,000+ a jeonse or standard monthly lease expects
We’re the operator, not an agency. You’re dealing with the people who own and run the house, so anything you need sorted goes to us directly — one message, in English, no middleman
English throughout, which is the whole reason this company exists

How to ask

Rooms go by conversation, not by form. Message us and tell us which campus, whether you want a single or a twin, and roughly when you’d move in.

💬 Two ways to reach us

WhatsApp — fastest, in English

KakaoTalk open chat — if you’re already in Korea and on Kakao

Tell us: which university, single or twin, your move-in month, and when you land in Korea. We’ll tell you what’s free, what it costs, what the room looks like right now — and book a time for the manager to meet you.

Asking costs nothing and commits you to nothing. If we don’t have what you need, we’ll say so.

The honest bits

Things we’d rather you knew before you ask than after you arrive:

The Korea University house is women only. The other two houses are not restricted this way — ask.
The Korea University house is a third-floor walk-up. No lift.
Coliving means sharing. The kitchen, the laundry and the bathroom are shared with the other residents. Rooms are private; the rest of the house is not.
There’s a minimum stay. These aren’t nightly rentals — we’re looking for people staying a semester or longer.
Prices depend on the house, the room type and the season, so we quote when you ask rather than printing a number here that goes stale.

Get it sorted

Looking for a room near Kyung Hee, HUFS or Korea University? Message us on WhatsApp or KakaoTalk — tell us the campus and the month, and we’ll tell you what’s available. In English, first answer free.

And if you end up living somewhere else entirely, the rest of this site still applies: we’re the people who unblock the drain, open the door and make the Korean phone call for foreign residents across Seoul.