Abstract: A retractable type temperature control panel apparatus for a refrigerator capable of advantageously preventing malfunctions thereof caused by inadvertent contact with a temperature control section thereof, which includes, in a freezer compartment door of a refrigerator, having a curved and elongated rear wall and having a pair of end walls; a downwardly and forwardly opened rotation guide member engaged to the recess and having a curved and elongated rear wall and a pair of end walls each having hinge openings therein; a triangular section rotation member rotatably engaged to the rotation guide member by a pair of hinge pin protrusions formed on each end thereof and having a front surface, a bottom surface and a rear surface; and a temperature control switch plate engaged to a temperature control switch groove formed on the front surface of the rotation member and having a plurality of temperature control switches carried thereon.