View of Sejong City ApartmentsIt has been confirmed that 9 out of 10 LH (Korea Land and Housing Corporation) employees who have won the special supply of apartments from the Sejong City relocation agency in the past 8 years have left Sejong City, and some employees have been transferred only two months after receiving the special supply. According to data submitted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Rep. Song Eon-Seok of the National Assembly’s National Land Transport Commission on the 24th, according to data submitted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, is pointed out by LH’s special supply preferences and employees selling the houses they received for a “short-term profit.” Of the 349 LH employees who won the special supply of apartments for relocation agencies in Sejong City for 8 years, 311, 89.1%, left the Sejong Headquarters for personnel appointments and other reasons.
LH employees received a special supply and worked at the Sejong Headquarters for an average of 2 years and 6 months. Most of the LH employees were given special supplies when they were virtually unable to live.
According to data submitted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, LH employee A, who moved to the Sejong headquarters in March 2012, won a special apartment supply in May of the same year. However, 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. It was revealed that an employee who had already moved to another area and left Sejong City also received a confirmation.
In particular, in 2019, when the special supply target for LH Sejong headquarters’ employees expired, all 63 employees were found to receive special supplies. The number of special supply winners from just 35 in 2018 has nearly doubled in one year. Of the 63 LH employees who received such a special’last train’ in 2019, 41 have now left the Sejong Headquarters. In particular, it is known that LH was the only case in which employees working at regional headquarters of public institutions received special supplies until 2019.
This is the reason why LH employees are saying’Sejong City Emperor’s special job’.
More than half of the apartment sales in Sejong City will be allocated first through special supply. The competition rate for specially-supplied apartments is only one-twentieth of the general pre-sale, and the winners receive tax benefits such as exemption from acquisition tax. This is the background of the possibility that LH employees enjoyed special benefits and stayed for only a few months to earn profits.
In fact, Congressman Song estimated that they would have made a profit of as much as hundreds of millions of won due to the increase in house prices. As a result of analyzing real estate statistics from the Korea 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, rose 131.9% to 542.44 million won in February 2021.
Rep. Song said, “There is a fundamental problem with the system itself, including employees of the branch offices of public institutions that work in rotation as special supplies. It is clear that the special supply system to help migration has deprived end users of opportunities and turned into a means of speculation. Policy failure” he emphasized.
Seoul = Reporter Baek Seung-mok