It is pointed out that 90% of the employees of Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) who have won the special supply of apartments to relocation agencies in Sejong City for the past 8 years are now confirmed not to work in Sejong, thus robbing end users of opportunities.
According to the data submitted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport by Rep. Song Eon-Seok (Gimcheon, Gyeongbuk, photo) of the National Assembly’s National Land Transport Committee on the 24th, 349 LH employees won the special supply of apartments for relocation agencies in Sejong City for 8 years from 2012 to 2019. Among them, 311, or 89.1%, were found to have left the Sejong Headquarters for reasons such as personnel appointments.
It was confirmed that LH employees who received special supplies worked at the Sejong headquarters for an average of only 2 years and 6 months. The majority of LH employees received special supplies in situations where they were virtually unable to live. In particular, until 2019, LH was the only case in which employees working at regional headquarters of public institutions received special supplies, causing controversy over preferential treatment.
There was also a case where an apartment was easily obtained through special supply while working at the Sejong Headquarters for over 4 months.
According to Congressman Song, LH employee A moved to the Sejong headquarters in March 2012 and won a special apartment supply in May of the same year. It was confirmed that after receiving approval from the head of the affiliated institution and issuing a special supply confirmation letter to be submitted to the implementation company, he moved out in July and left Sejong City.
In addition, seven employees were issued a special supply confirmation in the month they moved out of the LH Sejong Headquarters, and it was revealed that employees who had already moved to another area and left Sejong City also received a confirmation. In particular, it was confirmed that 63 LH employees received special supply from the relocation agency in 2019, when the period for special supply of LH Sejong Headquarters expired. The number of special supply winners from just 35 in 2018 has nearly doubled in one year. However, it has been confirmed that 41 out of 63 LH employees who received special service as the last train in 2019 are not currently working at the Sejong Headquarters.
As a result of analyzing statistical data of the Korean Real Estate Agency, the average selling price of apartments in Sejong City, which was only 234.79 million won in May 2017, when the Moon Jae-in administration was launched, was 542.44 million won in February 2021, 131.9%. Rose.
In addition, since more than half of the apartments sold in Sejong City are allocated first through special supply, the competition rate for special supply apartments is only 1/20 of that of general sales, and special supply winners receive tax benefits such as exemption from acquisition tax.
Rep. Song Eon-suk said, “There is a fundamental problem with the system itself that includes special supply targets for employees of the branch offices of public institutions that work in rotation. The reason that the special supply system to help migration deprived end users of opportunities and turned them into a means of speculation The obvious policy failure” he criticized. Reporter Yoon Jeong