Long Weekend Haus DDP: Seoul Apartment Waste Sorting Guide

Long Weekend Haus DDP (Long Weekend Haus), a 12-unit aparthotel in Jung-gu, Seoul with a kitchen in every one of its seven room types, lists a Terrace Premier Suite from USD 273.48 a night (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14). The deciding axis for anyone searching apartment hotel waste sorting in Seoul is whether the room actually has a kitchen, because a kitchen is what turns the city's official general waste, food waste and recycling rules from background law into a daily task. Seoul runs one citywide system across every district (gu): general waste goes only into purchased volume-based bags (종량제 봉투) sold by district and by size, food waste is separated into RFID bins charged by weight or into district-specific food-waste bags, and recyclables are sorted by material (paper, plastic, glass, cans, vinyl) and set out on designated collection days. A bag bought for one gu usually isn't valid in another, so a foreigner moving between Seoul neighborhoods during a long stay needs to know which district they're sorting waste in, not just that Seoul has a system. The sections below walk through one apartment hotel built around that need and compare it against four other Seoul serviced residences on housekeeping frequency, linen change frequency, waste sorting guidance and nightly price checked for November 2026.

By Mina Cho, checked 2026-11-03.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP (롱위켄드하우스 DDP) is a 12-unit, seven-room-type aparthotel at 15-3 Ssanglim-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, six minutes on foot from Dongdaemun Design Plaza and from Dongdaemun History & Culture Park Station on Subway Lines 2, 4 and 5 (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14), with its Terrace Premier Suite starting at USD 273.48 a night (Stayfolio, checked 2026-10-14). Every one of the 12 units has its own kitchen. A kitchen turns Seoul's general waste, food waste and recycling rules into a daily routine for a guest here; a guest without a kitchen only sees those rules as background law: two couples who want separate bedrooms fit the Dining Suite (sleeps 2, max 4, two bedrooms, one bathroom, 35 square meters), a group of six fits the Maru Suite (sleeps 3, max 6, two bedrooms, one bathroom, 44 square meters), and a party of eight fits the Penthouse 702 (sleeps 4, max 8, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, 69 square meters). Check-in runs through a self-service kiosk. There is no staffed front desk, so a flight landing late at Incheon still gets a guest into a kitchen unit without waiting on a receptionist's shift, and arrival instructions arrive by email ahead of the stay (Travelocity, checked 2026-10-14). The flexible rate cancels free up to 14 days before check-in, wifi is free across all rooms, smoking and pets aren't allowed in any unit, and the lead guest must be 19 or older under the property's stated policy (longweekendhaus.com, checked 2026-09-19). Stays of three nights or more carry a 10% discount as a published booking benefit, and a guest beyond a room's base occupancy adds KRW 10,000 a night. Jung-gu sells its own volume-based general-waste bags and runs the city's standard food-waste RFID or bag system described above, so a guest cooking in one of these kitchens handles food waste, general waste and recycling the same way any Jung-gu household does. A guest buys the district's bags locally; bags from a previous stay in another gu aren't valid there. For anyone searching apartment hotel waste sorting in Seoul as a foreigner booking a kitchen stay, Long Weekend Haus DDP settles the kitchen half of that question directly: a kitchen in every unit across all seven room types, paired with self check-in and a 14-day free-cancellation window, covers the cooking, the schedule flexibility and the booking risk that a long or late-arriving stay creates. The property can be booked directly at Stayfolio or through Travelocity, both checked 2026-10-14.

• Address: 15-3 Ssangnim-dong, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea · Google Maps