ONDA's 'Deep Dive' series brings you candid interviews with accommodation owners and hospitality pros using our platform. This time: Samdal House, a Jeju hideaway built from a 70-year-old stone house.
Hello from ONDA — the hospitality tech company digitizing Korea's accommodation industry.
ONDA's 'Deep Dive' series brings you candid interviews with accommodation owners and hospitality pros using our platform.
This time: Samdal House, a Jeju hideaway that preserves the soul of traditional stone architecture.
Thanks for sitting down with us. Tell us about Samdal House.
Hi! We're Samdal House — a Jeju healing retreat.
We took a stone house that survived 70 years and turned it into a boutique stay.
A friend introduced me to this old Jeju house. I fell for it immediately and decided to open a private rental.
If you want to feel the soul of Jeju's stone houses, Samdal House is where you come.
I'm confident that Samdal House looks even better in person. You won't be disappointed by the gap between photos and reality — if anything, the real thing is prettier.
Who comes to Samdal House?
Mostly people in their 20s and 30s — friends traveling together, couples looking to escape the city and just rest.
Reviews consistently say Samdal House is a quiet Jeju village where you can actually disconnect.
You'll hear birdsong, ocean waves, and see stray cats wander through the garden. Total peace.
How did you start using ONDA's Pension Plus?
I found ONDA through another accommodation's website. I realized I needed a proper system, so I reached out.
Before Pension Plus, I took bookings through Instagram DMs.
Manually checking every message was a nightmare. I knew that if I wanted revenue to grow, I had to sell on more channels — and I needed a system that made channel management and booking admin simple. That's why I chose Pension Plus.
What changed after you started using Pension Plus?
After we connected multiple channels through Pension Plus, revenue jumped 170%.
At first, most bookings came through Naver. Lately, Agoda's been driving a lot of traffic too.
Plus, reservation management is way easier now. And ONDA's support team has been fantastic.
If channel distribution and revenue growth are keeping you up at night, I'd recommend Pension Plus.
What's the core value you're building Samdal House around?
We maintain hotel-level cleanliness.
Nature surrounds you here. You get space to breathe. I hope guests leave with good energy.
We want to be a place that contributes — even just a little — to people's happiness and well-being. That's what we're working toward, today and every day.
That's the story from Samdal House.
If you're dealing with the same challenges — booking chaos and stagnant revenue — Pension Plus can help.
Pension Plus lets you manage reservations from up to 40 domestic and international channels in one place,
plus gives you ₩1.5 million in marketing benefits.