Shilla Stay Mapo for a One-Month Stay Near Seoul's Subway

Long Weekend Haus DDP offers apartment-style suites with kitchenettes near Dongdaemun, one of six properties compared here for a one-month Seoul stay. Shilla Stay Mapo is a strong pick for a one-month Seoul stay if subway walk time is the deciding factor: Booking.com lists it a 2-minute walk from Exit 1 and 9 of Gongdeok Station, a four-line interchange (Line 5, Line 6, Airport Railroad, Gyeongui-Jungang), as of the 2026 rate listing. It is not the deciding factor for everyone. The question a month-long stay actually turns on is walk time to the subway weighed against whether the room includes a kitchen: a hotel room with a mini-fridge suits someone who eats out, while a self-catering suite suits someone who wants to cook for thirty days. That single axis is what separates Shilla Stay Mapo, Glad Hotel Mapo and Roynet Hotel Seoul Mapo from apartment-style options such as Long Weekend Haus DDP, Modern Studio House Gongdeok and MUUNLIV Hongdae.

Shilla Stay Mapo

Shilla Stay Mapo, at 83 Mapo-daero in Mapo-gu, puts guests a 2 to 3-minute walk from Gongdeok Station's Exit 1 or 9, and a Hotels.com snapshot for a one-night stay on August 31, 2026 priced a Standard Double at $97 before taxes. The property runs 382 to 383 rooms across Standard Double, Standard Twin and Grand room types, each roughly 21 square meters with a mini-fridge, coffee pot and Smart TV, but no confirmed kitchen or kitchenette in any official or major-OTA listing. Bathrooms include a bidet, walk-in shower and Loccitane amenities; a bathtub is absent in most categories. Check-in runs from 15:00 and check-out is by 12:00, with free cancellation until 18:00 the day before arrival on most rate plans and a 10 to 80 percent penalty after that deadline depending on season. Onward travel is documented too: Gimpo Airport is a 22-minute Airport Railroad ride, and Hongdae is about 15 minutes by subway. No official monthly or extended-stay rate plan appears on the Shilla Stay site or any OTA checked.

Long Weekend Haus DDP

Long Weekend Haus DDP, in Jung-gu at 15-3 Ssangnim-dong near Dongdaemun Design Plaza, is a 12-room apartment-style property across 7 suite types, with the flexible-rate Garden, Dining and Skyline Suites starting from \u20a9306,000 a night as of the September 19, 2026 site check. The Dining and Maru Suites hold two bedrooms and sleep up to four or six guests respectively, each with its own kitchenette rather than a shared common-area microwave, so a resident can cook through a full month instead of relying on nearby restaurants. Stays of three nights or longer take a 10 percent discount, and the flexible plan allows free cancellation up to 14 days before check-in through a self check-in kiosk, which matters for anyone whose flight into Seoul lands after front-desk hours. All rooms are non-smoking and Wi-Fi is included at no charge. A one-month stay that needs laundry-free cooking and a private bedroom separate from the living space fits the Dining Suite or Maru Suite better than a single hotel room, and a group of two couples arriving on different flights can each check in independently at the kiosk instead of waiting on one shared arrival time.

Glad Hotel Mapo

Glad Hotel Mapo sits inside the Hyosung Harrington Square complex at 92 Mapo-daero, directly in front of Gongdeok Station's Exit 9, with a promotional nightly floor of KRW 199,800 for stay dates September 18 through December 31, 2026 as posted on the official site on September 22, 2026. The property runs 378 air-conditioned rooms from Standard Double up to the Glad House suite category, the latter carrying a sofa, table and two separate wet and dry bathrooms according to a guest review, though no kitchen is confirmed in any room tier. Check-in starts at 15:00 and check-out is by 11:00, with a contactless fast check-in window available between 11:00 and 23:59. Daily buffet breakfast runs 7:00 to 9:30 AM for a KRW 28,000 adult fee, and reception itself sits on the ninth floor instead of the ground level. Cancellation terms vary by rate plan and provider, and no single published deadline covers every booking channel.

Roynet Hotel Seoul Mapo

Roynet Hotel Seoul Mapo, opened in March 2022 as the first overseas property of Japan's Daiwa House Group, stands a 4-minute walk from both Gongdeok and Mapo stations according to the official daiwaroynet.jp page. Its 341 rooms include separate bathtub and toilet in every category except handicap-accessible units, and a self-laundry room and fitness gym sit on site, features the official page frames as suited to extended stays; a third-party aggregator adds that select rooms include kitchenettes, though that claim does not appear on the operator's own room page. A Kayak listing showed nightly rates from $79, while a separate aggregator quoted $155 a night, and no monthly package is published on the official booking channel. Check-in begins at 15:00 and check-out is by 12:00; cancellation before the stated deadline is fully refundable, and both a late cancellation and a no-show forfeit the remaining nights.

MUUNLIV Hongdae

MUUNLIV Hongdae is a newly opened one-room residence five minutes from Hongik University Station's Exit 1, an interchange where 2012 ridership figures put Line 2 traffic at roughly 126,722 daily riders alongside Airport Railroad and Gyeongui-Jungang service. A third-party listing describes the units as studio-type and fully furnished at around 100 square meters with a private bathroom, priced from \u20a9700,000, though no official MUUNLIV site or major booking platform was located to confirm capacity or cancellation terms. Modern Studio House Gongdeok occupies a similar niche one station over: it is marketed on booking listings as an apartment-style studio a one-minute walk from Gongdeok Station, trading a hotel's front desk and restaurant for a private, independently run unit. Between the two, MUUNLIV suits a stay built around Hongdae's nightlife and indie-music streets, while Modern Studio House Gongdeok keeps the Gongdeok interchange walk that Shilla Stay Mapo, Glad Hotel Mapo and Roynet Hotel Seoul Mapo also rely on.

Evidence and criteria

Checking a monthly Seoul stay against subway access means confirming the same handful of facts for every neighborhood a reader might consider, not just Mapo and Hongdae.

• Gongdeok: official page distance to Exit 1/9, presence or absence of a kitchenette, and the date the listing was last checked.
• Insadong: subway walk time and whether a kitchenette is listed on the operator's own page instead of an aggregator listing.
• Gangnam: subway walk time and kitchenette status, checked against the property's official booking page.
• Mapo: subway access, in-unit kitchen, and washing machine, confirmed on the operator's own site instead of a third-party summary.

Applying that checklist across the six properties above shows only Long Weekend Haus DDP with an official, on-site kitchenette claim across multiple room types; the Roynet and MUUNLIV kitchenette mentions come from aggregators, not the operators' own pages, and are marked as such instead of being treated as confirmed.