Amending Apartment Management Rules and Reporting — Majority Approval of Residents, Report to the City, County or District Within 30 Days

Procedure

1. 1. Identify the reasons for amendment and compare with the standard rules

   Compare the current management rules with the latest standard management rules of the metropolitan city or province article by article and list the parts that need to be amended. The standard rules cover items such as the election and dismissal procedures for building representatives, the operation of the election management committee, calculation and collection of management fees, the long-term repair reserve rate, accounting audits, floor noise and secondhand smoke, identity verification for electronic voting, and the prohibition of harassment of security guards and other workers, so first check whether amendments to the standard rules have been reflected in the complex's rules. For any article that will differ from the standard rules, write down the reason separately.

2. 2. Draft and propose the amendment

   The draft must state the purpose of the amendment, the changes from the existing rules and the differences from the standard rules. The amendment may be proposed by resolution of the residents' representative council or in writing by at least one tenth of all residents, so for a council proposal the resolution is recorded in the meeting minutes, and for a resident proposal a signed list of proposers is prepared.

3. 3. Public notice, individual notice and voting

   Post the draft on the complex website and each building's notice board (including entrance notice boards, if any), and send a summary of the draft to each resident. The amendment is then decided by approval of a majority of all residents, and votes may be collected by electronic voting instead of written consent. When electronic voting is used, identity must be verified through mobile phone authentication, a certificate or a similar method, and residents must be informed in advance of the voting method and period.

4. 4. Report the amendment to the city, county or district

   Within 30 days of the amendment, the chair of the residents' representative council submits the report form on the establishment and amendment of management rules to the mayor, county head or district head, together with the amendment proposal and the residents' consent forms. The city, county or district must notify whether the report is accepted within 7 days of receiving it, and if neither acceptance nor an extension of the processing period is notified within that period, the report is deemed accepted on the day after the period ends.

5. 5. Keep the amended rules and respond to inspection requests

   Once the report is accepted, the management entity keeps the amended rules and must comply when a resident requests to inspect them or to make copies at their own expense. If amended articles affect how management fees are charged or how elections are run, the management office's charging standards and the election management committee's operating rules are also updated.

Required documents

• Report form on the establishment and amendment of management rules (Enforcement Rule of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Annex Form No. 5)
• Amendment proposal (minutes of the residents' representative council resolution, or the list of written proposals by at least one tenth of residents)
• Residents' consent forms (written consent forms or electronic voting results confirming approval by a majority of all residents)
• Draft amendment (stating the purpose, the changes from the existing rules and the differences from the standard rules) and the full text of the amended rules
• Records of the public notice of the draft and the individual notice of the summary (photos of postings, notice records, etc.)
• Letter of authorization (when filed by an agent)

Fees

Typically in the range of several hundred thousand won across the industry. We provide a quote after consultation depending on the size of the complex, the number of amended articles, and whether the comparison table with the standard rules and the notice and consent form templates are prepared together.

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Legal basis and review date

• Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 18
• Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 19
• Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 22
• Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 102
• Enforcement Decree of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 3
• Enforcement Decree of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 19
• Enforcement Decree of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 20
• Enforcement Decree of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 21
• Enforcement Decree of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 22
• Enforcement Rule of the Multi-Family Housing Management Act, Article 6

Checked against the statutes on 2026-10-13

Statutes and public notices change, so each case needs to be checked individually. Statute titles are given in English for reference. The Korean statutes are the authoritative text.

Check these first

• Collecting votes without posting the draft publicly and sending the summary individually may leave a defect in the amendment procedure, so keep records of the postings and notices as part of the report documents.
• The approval threshold is a majority of all residents, not of those who voted, so the list of all households and residents must be finalized before counting consent forms.

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