Cities you can live in on ₩3M a month

How costs are estimated

We add rent, utilities, internet, food, transport, and leisure from city prices to estimate monthly living costs. Rent uses your selected housing price; utilities (for an 85 m² home) and internet are counted once per household. Food, transport, and leisure scale with household size and lifestyle. Each city then shows how much of your monthly budget is left or how much is missing.

Housing assumption

The one-person default is a 1-bedroom apartment in the city center. Automatic housing selects a city-center two-bedroom for two people and three-bedroom for three or four. Two-bedroom rent is the average of one- and three-bedroom rents in the same location. A housing choice made under Change conditions stays selected when household size changes.

Lifestyle multiplier

The selected lifestyle multiplier applies only to food, transport, and leisure. Rent, utilities, and internet are not multiplied again. The default is Balanced (×1.25).

Very lean ×0.75 · Lean ×1 · Balanced ×1.25 · Comfortable ×1.5 · Premium ×1.75

How sorting works

Overall score weights relative ranks across all cities: cost 60%, safety 20%, healthcare 15%, and quality of life 5%. Lower costs and higher indices score better. A missing value scores zero for that factor.

Value is the quality of life index divided by monthly living costs in KRW for your selected household, housing, and lifestyle. Both the index and monthly cost must be positive to be compared.

Metric, value and cost sorts place cities without the relevant comparison value last. Ties are ordered by lower living costs.

Data dates and sources

Prices are estimates converted to KRW from city cost-of-living data such as Numbeo, not real-time official statistics. Each city's check date and exchange rate appear in the calculation details on its city page.

Price check dates for the loaded cities: 2026-05-20 – 2026-10-27 Exchange rate as of 2026-11-02