1. A brief history of Bin-Zib

Bin-Zib, an alternative community for autonomy, sharing and hospitality

-Research Lab Bin

3 people opened Bin-Zib by renting an apartment with $120,000 key money ($40,000 co-fund + $80,000 loan from a bank)

The mid section of Seoul

Key money system of South Korea

• Contract by a year or two• Key money is returned at the end of contract• $100,000 key money = $1,000 monthly rent (12% interest per a year)

월세월세보증금

월세Monthly rent

월세Deposit

rent

Key money +rent

월세Deposit

rent

Key money월세deposit

rent

$10,000

$900

$50,000

$500

$100,000

0

“Bin-Zib is a house that is open to all. We composed Bin-Zib because we believe that houses

should not be owned. We believe if there is any profit gener-

ated bymoney, it has to be shared with everybody in the world. By opening a house to everyone, by sharing money

with others,we can live together. (….) We hope that we can expand Bin-Zib, the praxis of

sharing, from the house to the town, and to the whole world.” (From Bin-Zib’s website, 2008)

Sharing the key money

“It was possible for all of us to live relatively in a decent residential environment with such a small

amountof money because we didn’t aim to Make profit while share key money

and resources.” (Bin-Zib, 2013)

How lovely it is that

I can live with only

$200 for a month!!!

Share of the expenses (monthly interest of loan + living cost)

　 아랫집 윗집 옆집 가파른집 참길음집 빈농집 앞집 빈가게 하늘집 공부집 팔당집 만행 까페해방촌 해방채 계단집 작은집 끝집 살림집 해방촌연

구소 구름집 마실집 옥상집 주요 사건

2008 년 2월

빈집

　

3 월 　4 월 　5 월 　6 월 　7 월 　8 월 　9 월 　10 월 　11 월

아랫집 윗집

　12 월 　

2009 년 1월 　

2 월 　3 월

옆집

빈마을회의 시작4 월

건넛집

　5 월 빈마을금고 논의6 월 　7 월 　8 월

참길음집　

9 월 　10 월

빈농집

　11 월 　12 월 　

2010 년 1월 　

2 월 　3 월

아랫마을

앞집

　4 월 　5 월 1 차 재배치6 월 빈고 시작7 월

아랫집

　8 월 　9 월 　10 월

빈가게

　11 월

하늘집

2 차 재배치12 월 　

2011 년 1월 　

2 월 　3 월 빈고 총회4 월 　5 월

낭만집

공부집 팔당집

3 차 재배치6 월 　7 월 　8 월 　9 월 집사회의10 월

작은집

　11 월 　12 월 　

2012 년 1월

만행

　

2 월

까페 해방촌

　3 월

해방채계단집

아듀 파티4 월 　5 월 　5 월 　6 월

작은집

　7 월 　8 월

끝집 살림집

　9 월 　10 월 　11 월 해방촌

연구소 구름집 마실집 옥상집　

12 월 　

The second Bin-Zib Oct.2008

Bin-Maul meeting April.2009

Bin-café Oct. 2010

Bin-Go Mar.2010

House manager meeting Sep.2011

Co-op café Oct.2011

Opening party Feb.2008

2. The principles of Bin-Zib

HospitalityNo rule to be a new member, multiplying Bin-Zibs, re-assembling houses,village festival, etc…

Autonomy, egalitari-anismRegular meetings within / between houses,meeting of Bin-Go,various DIY activities, collective studies, workshops, co-op café, etc…

SharingMutual aids, gift, co-fund, sharing the key money and places solidarity with other social movements, solidarity fund Bin-Go, etc…

3. Bin-Go,a co-op of people who oppose capital-ism

고 [go] means fund/bank in Korean

A solidarity fund, Bin-Go

“We have to expand the common step by step to make capi-tal extinct,

to reduce our reliance on monetary relationship.” (Bin-Go, 2010)

(1) Funding money + Granting loan to each Bin-Zib(2) Adjusting the “share of expenses” between houses ac-

cordingly(3) Granting loan with small interest to members(4) Solidarity with other social movements and other like

minded communities

“We believe that capital should be extinct ultimately. But how it becomes possible? Can we share the profit generated from my capital with other people? Can I use the key money for my house to the com-

mon place for people? Can I invest my money not for in-

terest but for other value? Can I willingly give money to a

friend who need it and forget about that?”(Bin-Zib, 2010)

“If a person shares the 12% profit generated from his key money

with all people in the world, the profit will become infinitely

closer to zero. The praxis will turn key money from the capital

into the common. Bin-Go aims to share each mem-ber’s profit

with people of the world by multiplying Bin-Zi” (Bin-Go, 2013)

Investors

-Every person has capital or debt in capitalist society

-How to avoid being a part of the globalized speculative capitalism?

-Is donation an alternative?

-How to occupy bank and transfer it?

-Can we make a different flow of money?

Communities

-Need spaces for activities

-Differences of power and capital between members

-How to be independent from the cap-ital?

-How to make solidarity with other communities?

-What if there is profit?

-How to reduce individual’s risk in case the commune becomes spoiled or ruined

How should communists invest their money?

Alternative investment? Alternative financial system?

Investors

Investment for communities’ space Sharing the profit Escape from being a bearer of cap-ital Investment as praxis of anti-capit-alism

Communities

Realization of an alternative value Opportunities of learning demo-cracy Retaining openness and stability Diminishing of inequality between each member’s capital

Bin-Go

=

invest-ment

in-come

loanin-terest

Anti-capital-ism

Expansion ofThe common

Mutual aid

Key moneySpeculative

capital

with-draw 12%6%3%

The system of Bin-Go

Solidarity fund, Bin-Go in 2013

-143 members, $230,000 assets

-Using more than10% profit for building solidarity

with other social movements

-Granting loan for 8 Bin-Zibs, one café,

4 other communities’ key money

-Small grant for individual members

“All profits will be used for expanding the common land and networking different flows of money. Investors cannot get any interest from their co-fund at least in forms of money but it can be told that our interest from the investment/ praxis will be the common and friends” (Bin-Go, 2013)

The expansion of the Bin-Zib’s experi-ment

Sharing a place and key money within members a house

Widening the sphere of sharing money to the village by establishing Bin-Go

Creating different flow of money by sharing whole profit with others

A map of the Bin-Village

Welcome to Bin-Zib!!