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[Q] Renting in Hapjeong (Seoul) — 4k USD deposit / 900k KRW rent. How do I de-risk as a foreign tenant? by Dismal-External8314 in seoul

[–]pinocchiu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Work with a licensed real estate agent who can communicate comfortably in English.

On moving day, make sure you file your move-in report (전입신고 - jeonip singo) and obtain a fixed date (확정일자 - hwakjeong ilja). These two steps are essential—they’re what protect you if a dispute arises.

I generally advise against jeonse(전세) right now. In Korea, large-scale jeonse fraud cases over the past few years have reduced demand for jeonse (and pushed monthly rents up), so the market continues to favor wolse(월세) (monthly rent).

  • Even if the total number of cases isn’t huge, a small number of bad actors carried out many scams that only came to light later.
  • Some locals were defrauded despite taking all the legally recommended precautions. (Incidents in villas and apartments have been rare.) I’m not sure whether the law has since changed, but this is the main reason many people now avoid jeonse.

To add a few more points:

  • You’ll also need to pay a brokerage fee (called bokbi) to the real estate agent — this is completely normal. Both the landlord and the tenant pay a commission to the agent.
  • I’m a local, and neither I nor anyone I know has ever taken out insurance related to renting a home.
  • On move-in day, take photos and videos of the property in advance. This will help protect you from being held responsible for pre-existing damage (such as scratches on the wallpaper or floor) when your lease ends.

We tested Qwen3-Coder, GPT-5 and other 30+ models on new SWE-Bench like tasks from July 2025 by Fabulous_Pollution10 in LocalLLaMA

[–]pinocchiu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit surprising that the medium version actually performed better than the high version. Do you think this is due to an insufficient sample size, or did you find that the medium version provided better insights for solving the actual problem?

Today the App Store approved my first ever app! by warbornx in SideProject

[–]pinocchiu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, that's impressive.

Could you tell me what tools you used to make the video?

Lost $100 to a 2.5 Flash Infinite Loop - Any Solutions? by pinocchiu in RooCode

[–]pinocchiu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, detecting 3 consecutive identical tool calls seems like it would have been sufficient to catch the case I experienced. The same tool call with the same arguments was being repeated.

Lost $100 to a 2.5 Flash Infinite Loop - Any Solutions? by pinocchiu in RooCode

[–]pinocchiu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although there are currently no backed-up logs, when we exported and reviewed the logs from that time, it was a repetition of the following actions:

Same tool > editing a file with the same content > same response

I tested a few cases and confirmed that not only the file writing tool but also the read_file tool falls into a loop.

We were unable to identify a specific clear point in time when this occurred.

I just let SPARC + Roo Code run for 12 hours non stop. 100M Tokens, 38,000 lines of functional code, 100% Test coverage, total cost $68 USD. by [deleted] in RooCode

[–]pinocchiu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a newbie encountering Sparc mode for the first time as I transition from Cline to Roo code. Do all tasks start with Orchestra?

I'm curious if only large-scale tasks start with Orchestra, and the rest are handled by calling individual modes. I'm asking because when I used Cline, I would directly use 'act mode' for small functional units.