Guide to Long-term Ski Locker Rentals in Korea

Sometimes you don’t want to lug your gear to and from the mountains or maybe you don’t want to fight over the expensive hourly rentals. If you have a Korean Foreigner Registration Card, you can rent lockers at Korean ski resorts for a few days or the season. This guide to long-term ski locker rentals will help you figure out if the lockers are right for you and how to rent them.

Renting a Lockers at Ski Parks

In South Korea, resorts offer both short-term and long-term gear locker rentals. The short-term gear lockers need to be rented out each day and cleared out in the evening and the long-term lockers are rented out from 1 day to a full season. These two locker types generally exist in different areas of the resort facilities. This blog post focuses specifically on the long-term gear lockers (겨울시즌 장비보관소) so let’s get into it.

Long-term Gear Lockers at Winter Resorts in Korea

Many skiers and snowboarders in Korea store their gear at their favorite ski park in seasonal lockers (겨울시즌 장비보관소). This means they can more comfortably travel to and from the resort on public transportation or it means more space in the car for people during the year. What ever reason, it’s a nice option for many for various reasons.

If you plan to visit the same ski park multiple times, renting a locker is a game-changer. Especially if you don’t have a vehicle or your vehicle is very small. You get a place to keep your backpack while you are on the slopes, and a spot to store your gear between sessions.

The following PDF shows the locker room layout at in Dragon Plaza at Yongpyong.

What To Expect with From a Season Locker

Most seasonal lockers have the following standards:

• What You Can Store: Board/skis, boots, helmet, and even clothing (make sure it’s dry).
• Locker Locations: Ski Resorts, often in a basement or separate area from the short-term gear lockers
• Price Range:
  • Small lockers: around 150,000–250,000 KRW per season
  • Larger family lockers: 250,000–500,000 KRW per season

Super Budget Lockers

Remember that storage varies by resort, so you need to check out each one to figure out what fits your needs. For example, Yongpyong (Mona Resort) offers super budget ski and boot lockers like seen in the image below. You can’t keep much beyond your skis and poles.

Keep in mind, some of the single lockers are VERY small. Like REALLY narrow and only hold your skis and boots, many snowboards can’t fit. You may have to rent a two person locker in order for snowboard gear or backpacks to also fit in the lookers. Make sure that you understand what size locker you need and that your gear will fit before going through the whole process of renting. Ask to see the lockers first to confirm they hold your gear.

Remember, you can share the locker with a friend. So if you know someone else who will needs one, consider splitting the cost of a larger locker instead of having two smaller lockers.

You May Need an FRC

Some (or maybe every) resorts require you to rent your seasonal locker online via their website or app. This means you need to verify your identity using a Korean Smartphone Number linked to your FRC card in order to rent. If you are US military you may not be able to rent seasonal lockers at resorts without an FRC or a friend with an FRC who can rent the locker for you.

The entire rental process is usually in Korean and even if you speak Korean, the registration process may feel frustrating. When we rented our first long-term gear lockers, we went to the resort and had the staff at the long-term locker office help walk us through the website. Even as Korean speakers, the UI/UX experience was confusing and we needed help with the hidden culture. After that, we were able to do it on our own.

Benefits of Lockers

We also learned that getting a long-term locker comes with some extra benefits. Benefits that we like so much that we get a long-term locker at our favorite resort even though we have an apartment 10 minutes away.

• Gear Storage & Drying Machines: Skip the hassle of carrying gear on buses or in small cars. It’s really nice to have a place to leave our gear that doesn’t take up space or make a mess in our living space.
• Changing Rooms: Since the long-term gear lockers also have change rooms, it’s easier get out of dirty clothes faster. This means we don’t have to run back home to change before meeting folks for dinner.
• Benches and Resting Areas: It’s awesome to have a spot to go rest that isn’t in the middle of the hustle and bustle.
• Place to Keep Lunch & Snacks: We like to pack our own lunches and bring our own snacks to save money and just avoid the hectic dining areas.

As introverts who get over stimulated in busy lodges, the long-term locker areas give us a chance to decompress away from the maddening crowds.

How to Reserve

As we previously mentioned, you may need to reserve your long-term locker rental on the resort website, specifically the Korean language version of the site. Even if you go to the resort, you will still need to register and pay online. Here is what the process goes:

• First, you need to register for the resort website where you want to rent a locker. This will likely be a frustrating and time consuming process, get help and settle in for the ride.
• Login and Navigate to the Rentals Page. This also might feel frustrating, just stick with it.
• Select the rental type and duration.
• Pay for the locker.
• Go to the long-term locker rental office, show them your reservation number, get your key and locker number.

Tips for Foreigners

We covered this important tips throughout the post with more context, but wanted to create a little cheat-sheet section:

• Your need your Foreign Registration Card (FRC/ARC).
• You need a Korean bank account linked to your phone number.
• Everything will be in Korean so have support and your tools ready.
• Setting things up the first time may feel VERY frustrating but after that it gets easy.

Example of Long-term Locker Rental Fees

To help provide context, we wanted to provide an example of what the costs might look like for your long-term locker rentals. To do this, we took the fee schedule from the Welli Hilli resort. Remember that every resort has it’s own systems and prices. Information may change over time as well. This is only an example.

Therefore, the following table is an example of Long-term locker costs from Welli Hilli Resort in 2025. It shouldn’t need said, but the pricing is in Korean won (KRW). If you have an X-5 season pass or a resort season pass, you often get a discount for long-term gear rentals at affiliated resorts. We marked these discounts in orange on the table:

Type	General (Season)	General (Annual)	Condo Member (Season)	Condo Member (Annual)	X-5 Season Pass Holder (Season)	X-5 Season Pass Holder (Annual)
Single (1 person)	140,000	230,000	90,000	140,000	100,000	170,000
Couple A (2-person horizontal)	290,000	370,000	190,000	240,000	230,000	300,000
Couple B (2-person vertical)	320,000	400,000	260,000	320,000	270,000	330,000
Family A (3-person)	420,000	500,000	300,000	350,000	330,000	400,000
Family B (4-person)	490,000	570,000	410,000	480,000	410,000	480,000

Seasonal v. Annual Locker Rentals

Some people have no place at home to safely store their gear. Therefore, the resorts also offer annual locker rentals that run essentially all year. This allows folks to keep their gear at the resorts all the time. This makes it much easier for folks who have live in one-room (studio) apartments to still embrace the ski life.

Additional Things to Know

We also have some random things to know in advance:

• Each person can often only rent 2 lockers per season.
• Most locker rooms have access hours, they are not 24/7. This helps with security.
• First come, first serve. It’s theoretically possible for everything to be rented.
• Everything needs cleared out by the last day of the season, the resort empties the lockers within 24 hours of the final day and tosses the contents.
• Lost keys require ID verification and payment of key replacement fee. This means if your friend is using your locker and they lose the key when you aren’t there, you need to go to the resort with your ID to get a key replacement.

Popular Ski Resorts Offering Long-term Lockers

• Welli Hilli (Gangwon-do)
• Yongpyong Resort (Gangwon-do)

Searching for Seasonal Lockers on Naver

To quickly find the information about seasonal locker-rentals at ski resorts in Korea, search 겨울시즌 장비보관소 (Winter season equipment storage) and it should bring up the exact page needed on the resort websites.

Bottom Line: Renting gear and a locker for the season in South Korea makes skiing and snowboarding much easier and more affordable. If you plan to ride often, reserve early in the fall before lockers and seasonal rental packages sell out.

Ski & Snowboarding Community Website

If you would like more information about the ski and snowboarding world, visit the Dr. Spark website. You can find all kinds of rental ads, lessons, used gear, etc. It’s where the Korean community goes.

Additional Blogs to Read

If you want to become a ski bum in Korea, here are the other blog posts to read:

• Multi-Resort Season Ski and Snowboard Pass for Korea
• Guide for Ski and Snowboard Season Gear Rentals in South Korea
• Discover Dalbang / Wolbang Short-Term Rentals in Korea
• 7 Best Ski Resorts in Gangwon-do
• Back-country Skiing in South Korea

You should be able to take this information and build the ski year of your dreams. Although, realistically it will take you a few years to get your perfect preferences dialed in.