Exactly, I suffered this landlord abuse while working abroad. Apartment was delivered back to the landlord crystal clean and 100% intact. Then they took my entire deposit and billed me around 12,000 EUR. I even had pictures to show that I had done no damage, but you can imagine how foreigner vs native testimony works in these kinds of super-racist countries. I managed to leave before I had to pay the bill, but I still lost my full deposit. Apparently this "fleece the foreigner" is a well known tactic in some countries.

Where was this? Asking so I can never visit.

That is a very specific legal arrangement, which I understand is getting rarer and rarer these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeonse

Ah, that is good to hear. Can foreigners enter a 'western' like rent agreement ?