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Fixed dates are given by community centres and branch offices, district courts and registry offices, and notaries. In person you bring the original contract and ID; the fee is 600 won per case, 500 won through the online registry. Six things are checked first, such as whether the contract is complete.

Your right to stay comes from delivery and address registration together, and a fixed date adds priority repayment. The conversion cap is 5.00%, increases stop at one-twentieth, and if you must leave unpaid, register the lease first. 30 guides in the order you meet them.

The statute cannot tell you how often the right is used. The rental filing data can, because it carries the answer as a field.

The lowest was 3.79% and the highest 5.78%. On a KRW 100 million loan that is KRW 1.99 million a year.

The conversion cap is the lower of 10% a year and the base rate plus 2 points. At a 3.00% base rate in September 2026, that is 5.00%.

Delivery and resident registration create opposing power; a fixed-date stamp adds priority repayment. And the statute says you cannot be repaid unless you hand the property over.

In Seoul, deposits up to ₩165m get small-deposit priority and ₩55m is repaid ahead of the mortgage — two different numbers. Renewal is due two months before expiry.

The last multiplier in the deemed-rent formula — the term-deposit rate is 31 per 1,000, that is 3.1%. It was spelled out not in the Decree but in Article 23(1) of the Enforcement Rule.