Chung Jeom-sik Criticizes Land Minister Nominee: "Seongnam-Gyeonggi Line Has Taken Over Real Estate Policy"

People Power Party Floor Leader Chung Jeom-sik addressed Hong Ji-sun, nominee for Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport—who previously served as the head of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government's Urban Housing Bureau during President Lee Jae-myung's tenure as Gyeonggi Provincial Governor—stating today (the 7th), "This appointment of the Land Minister is a 'takeover of real estate policy by the Seongnam-Gyeonggi line,'" and urged, "We strongly urge a reconsideration."

During the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly, Floor Leader Chung remarked, "Under Lee Jae-myung's Gyeonggi provincial administration, Policy Special Advisor Lee Han-joo served as the head of the Gyeonggi Research Institute, and nominee Hong Ji-sun served as the head of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government's Urban Housing Bureau.

Special Advisor Lee was the designer of Lee Jae-myung-style basic series such as 'basic housing,' and nominee Hong was the working-level practitioner for basic housing policies," he noted.

He stated, "If Kim Hyun-ji, Chief of the Annex Office, is the political top gun of President Lee's closest inner circle, the Seongnam-Gyeonggi line, then Special Advisor Lee is the policy top gun. Special Advisor Lee, who is called the president's longtime policy mentor, stated earlier this year regarding an apartment in Gangnam, Seoul, that it is 'a risky asset that can crash at any time.'

This is in line with President Lee's sudden theory of a real estate market crash."

He further pointed out, "Special Advisor Lee has shown hypocrisy by owning more than 10 pieces of land and buildings, and nominee Hong is similarly turning out to be the 'king of hypocrisy' who made a market profit of 400 million won in just one year through a leveraged purchase utilizing her mother-in-law's chance," adding, "With the Lee Han-joo and Hong Ji-sun hypocrisy line, the Lee Jae-myung administration's future real estate policies cannot gain public trust."

In addition, regarding Ministry of Justice Minister Nominee Kim Seung-won, who has been facing allegations of "illegal solicitation regarding new drug clinical trials," Floor Leader Chung said, "The issue with nominee Kim is not whether it was a solicitation or a civil petition.

Putting all that aside, it was a drug that laboratory mice took and died from.

Whether through solicitation or a civil petition, a lawmaker helped a company that covered up those side effects just because of a single word, 'oppa.'"

He urged, "The result was stock manipulation, leaving only the 'eat-and-run' actions of major shareholders and the blood and tears of retail investors," adding, "You should immediately give up the ministerial post."
 
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