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“I have confidence in real estate problems” 1 year and 2 months later
“I am very sorry to the people who are very discouraged”
To Byun Chang-heum, “make sure to establish supply measures”
Minimizing mention of political issues and’economic optimism’
‘Integration’, the choice of’embracing’ to give birth to interpretation of the former president’s pardon
“I will never lose the war on real estate speculation.” (New Year’s Address on January 7, 2020)
→ “We will put special emphasis on supply expansion” (New Year’s address on January 11, 2021)
President Moon Jae-in’s view of the housing market has changed dramatically in a year. President Moon, who mentioned’the war against real estate speculation’ in his New Year’s address a year ago, discussed “a variety of housing supply plans that can be effective quickly” in this year’s New Year’s address. He also made his first apology regarding the housing problem, saying, “I am very sorry.”
◇ First apology for housing problems
President Moon said in his New Year’s address on January 7 last year, “The government’s commitment to stability in the real estate market, protection of end users, and suppression of speculation is firm,” and “I will never lose in the war on real estate speculation.”
This comment was based on the conviction that the housing policy promoted by the Moon Jae-in administration was not wrong. President Moon said in’Conversation with the People’ broadcast on MBC in November 2019, “I want to assure that our government is confident in the real estate issue,” and said, “Even if our government faces difficulties with the growth rate, we do not use real estate as a means of stimulating the economy. “I have a firm determination not to do so, so I have been holding the property price.” He also said, “Nationally, real estate prices are stabilizing to the point that they have rather declined,” he said. “Especially, we talked about jeon and monthly rent for the common people, and in the past,’crazy jeon and monthly rent’, but wasn’t it stabilized under our government?”
It is the New Year’s address that came out of that extension. President Moon apologized, saying, “We are very sorry to the people who are discouraged by the difficulties of housing.” It was the first apology for housing issues. In addition, President Moon said, “We will not hesitate to prepare necessary measures for housing stability. We will put special emphasis on supply expansion, and we will quickly come up with a variety of housing supply plans that can be effective quickly.”
In President Moon’s New Year’s address this year, we minimized mentions of political issues and filled most of them with economic-related content. While’Economy’ appeared 29 times in the New Year’s Address, the contents related to North Korea were only a little over 4 in the 40 New Year’s Address.
Regarding the economic situation this year, President Moon said, “It is predicted that per capita national income will surpass the G7 (7 major countries) countries (Italy) for the first time in history, and the stock index will also open the 3,000 era, among the OECD (Economic Cooperation and Development Organization) countries. It recorded the highest share price increase rate,” he said, saying, “It shows that the future outlook of the Korean economy is bright even in the midst of the crisis.” He said, “Now I can finally see the end of the dark tunnel,” he said. “This year, we will leap to a leading country in a new era with a quick and strong economic recovery.”
In the beginning, President Moon was known to speak of’recovery, leap, and integration’ in his New Year’s address, but his actual remark was “2021, our goal is clear.’Recovery’ and’leap’. I want to add’inclusion’ to it. “It was. On the 7th at the New Year’s meeting, when he said’integration’, it was said that the expression was changed to’embracing’ when the interpretation that the pardon of two former presidents Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye was in mind.
In the political world, President Moon is interpreted as showing his will to lead the second half of his power to economic issues such as the Korean version of the New Deal. It is interpreted that it was trying to convey a signal that it would show a flexible policy stance, such as supply expansion, for issues of public welfare such as real estate.
Agenda and Strategy Director Yoon Tae-gon of The Moa’s Political Analysis Office said, “The message of the politicians is contained in the expression, but also contained in silence or avoidance. The things that the President did not say were rather noticeable.” He said, “There was no word’real estate,’house price’, but’residential stability’ will be the main concept of state administration for the new year.” “The fact that there was no mention of’opposition’,’National Assembly’ and’pardon’ is the fact that the corona economy public welfare It is clear that the recent trend of focusing on non-conflict elements such as etc.”
However, it is questionable how much President Moon’s will will materialize, as the ruling party such as the Democratic Party and the ruling party insist on a real estate policy with unilateral regulation. In addition, the Democratic Party held the Supreme Council of the Party on the same day as a “remarks that disturb the real estate market” when the internal opinion ordered inside the Party that’it is necessary to ease the transfer tax middle tax policy in order to bring homes owned by multi-homeowners to the market. Is inappropriate” gave a public warning.