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Candidate Chang-Hum Byun, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Provided by the Blue House
Byun Chang-heum (55), president of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), who was nominated as the new candidate for Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation (LH) on the 4th, is a relief pitcher who is on behalf of the starting pitcher (Minister Kim Hyun-mi) in a match against an enraged realtor in defeat. In case of additional careers, both the Blue House and public opinion are paying attention to their actions, since it can even give the game (the government).
“Would you have called me when I died?”
Candidate Byun said in a phone call immediately after the Blue House announcement that he said, “I’m not even a politically capable person, but I think he would have called me if he couldn’t.” He explained the background of the nomination and said: “I think there was a demand of the times to solve the (residential) problem anyway and to implement a policy that works in the field.”
He introduced himself as “a person who was constantly interested in how housing supply, development projects and balanced regional development work, and tried to find out how it differed from existing ones.” He added: “There are a lot of smart people, so if you collect ideas, there will be a lot of things to do.”
Candidate Byeon, from Uiseong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, graduated from Seoul National University with a master’s degree in urban planning and a doctorate in public administration. He served as a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Sejong University and director of the Korea Urban Research Institute.
At the time, he led the ‘Seoul-Style Urban Regeneration’ project with Kim Soo-hyun, former president of the Seoul Institute and former director of the Blue House Policy Office. This project resulted in the ‘New Deal for Urban Regeneration’, a promise from the Moon Jae-in government. After the inauguration of the Moon Jae-in government, he served as a member of the Presidential Committee for Balanced National Development and was appointed Chairman of LH Corporation in April 2019.
“The Moon government’s housing policy is the best” … There will be no big change of tone
Under the Candidate Byeon system, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation is expected to focus on the recently announced supply expansion plan to stabilize house prices, with no significant changes in political stance so far. Candidate Byun, as current LH president, has been leading pre-generation government measures such as introducing a new public charter and supplying vacant rental houses or hotels as charter.
In particular, he said in a National Assembly work report last August, “If you compare the housing policies of the Lee Myung-bak, Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in governments, this government is the best.” In a recent interview, faced with criticism that the jeonse crisis could not be solved with supply measures such as hotels and villas, rather than apartments, he was disgusted with “It is an insult to depreciate the efforts of the public sector to offer the maximum affordable housing “.
However, there is room to reconsider the regulation and policy that caused the rise in house prices. He replied, “I have not envisioned it (as a real estate solution) yet,” he said by phone that day.
A real estate expert who requested anonymity predicted that “candidate Byun will be difficult to touch the great axis of the government’s real estate policy.”
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