Land Minister hints at turning vacant offices into houses to tame housing concerns

Kim Yun-duk, minister of land, infrastructure and transport, said on Monday he was considering repurposing vacant offices or commercial properties into housing amid concerns about housing supply instability in South Korea.

At a forum in Seoul hosted by Prime Minister Han Seong-sook, Kim said the government was taking the matter of solving the young generation's housing problems "very seriously." He added that developing commercial properties into residential buildings would be his signature poli ...