Re-win Restriction Calculator

Win a housing subscription (청약) in Korea once and for a set period you cannot be selected again. This is the re-winning ban. It exists to stop one person winning repeatedly and to spread the chances around, and the period runs from 1 to 10 years depending on what kind of housing you won. Enter the date of your previous win and the kind of housing, and the calculator shows the length of the ban, the date it ends and how many days remain as of today.

It answers one question only: until when does your past win tie you up. Whether the housing you now want to apply for is one that applies the ban is set by that project's recruitment notice, and the calculator does not judge that.

Anyone who has won before and wants to apply again. Even if you gave up the contract after winning, the win itself triggers the ban, so check regardless of whether you signed. A household member's win affects the whole household too, so if a spouse, parent or child in the same household has won, run their date as well.

It matters most for subscriptions in designated areas. Housing supplied in an overheated speculation district or a subscription-overheated area applies the ban, so if even one day remains, a win is cancelled and you are marked ineligible. Being marked ineligible blocks you from applying for a further period, which is why knowing the exact date beforehand counts.

The basis is 주택공급에 관한 규칙 제54조. Paragraph 1 says which wins create a ban and paragraph 2 sets the periods. A win of price-capped housing or of housing supplied in an overheated speculation district carries 10 years; housing supplied in a subscription-overheated area 7 years; land-lease housing and similar 5 years. Special supply for relocated public-agency staff and public rental housing converted to sale are split further by size and location: for units of 85㎡ or less, 5 years in an overcrowding control region and 3 years elsewhere; for units above 85㎡, 3 years in an overcrowding control region and 1 years elsewhere.

Every period runs from the date of the win, not the contract date or the move-in date. The calculation adds the relevant number of years to the win date to get the end date and counts the days from today to that date as what remains. The tail of the same paragraph says that where two or more periods apply, the longest one governs, so price-capped housing supplied in an overheated speculation district is 10 years whichever way you look at it.

Take someone who won price-capped housing on 15 January 2024. The period is 10 years, so the ban ends on 15 January 2034. Before that date, being selected for any housing that applies the ban makes them ineligible. If today is 15 September 2026, 2,679 days remain.

If instead they won public rental housing converted to sale on the same date, with a unit of 85㎡ or less outside an overcrowding control region, the period is 3 years and ends on 15 January 2027. The same win date, but the end dates differ by 7 years because the kind of housing differs. That is why the starting point is checking in the recruitment notice which category your win fell into.

The most common is counting from the contract or move-in date. The rule fixes the start at the win date, so the clock starts earlier and ends earlier than people expect. The second is assuming that giving up the contract removes the ban. The ban attaches to the fact of winning, not to the contract.

The third is looking only at yourself. The ban applies to the winner and everyone in the winner's household, so household members' wins must be checked too. The fourth is assuming that once the period ends you are free everywhere. This calculator covers only the effect of a past win; it does not cover the once-only limit on special supply or the separate bar that follows an ineligible win. The eligibility conditions in each recruitment notice must be checked every time you apply.