[Economy pick] Residential living accommodation. Bye now.

[Anchor]
Let's start the economic pick that points to economic issues.

Today, Choi Doo-hee, a reporter from the Ministry of Economy, is here.

This is the first keyword.

First of all, I think we need to understand the concept, what is a living accommodation facility? I also wonder why it became a problem.

[Reporter]
Yes. I'm sure there are a lot of people who are unfamiliar with it.

Saengsuk, also commonly referred to as Residence, was introduced in 2012 in line with the growing demand for long-term foreign tourism.

It was used as a lodging facility where cooking was possible, but there were no special regulations, so it was actually used as a house in many cases.

During the Moon Jae In government, it was attracting attention as an investment product to replace apartments due to stricter real estate regulations.

As speculative demand surged, the government revised the Enforcement Decree of the Building Act in 2021 to make it mandatory for raw accommodation to register.

Therefore, in order to use raw accommodation as a residence, it was decided to force the conversion to officetels and houses, and to impose enforcement penalties if it violates this.

Originally, the grace period for compulsory implementation was scheduled to end at the end of last year, but it was postponed until this year.

As a result, 52,000 of the nation's raw accommodation were forced to pay enforcement penalties.

[Anchor]
Today, the government announced a support plan that encourages the legalization of existing raw cooking and has nailed it to be sold only in the accommodation industry? Please explain in detail what it's about.

[Reporter]
Yes. In this regard, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has prepared a customized support plan.

As you said, instead of blocking the possibility of housing exclusive use of new raw accommodation in the future, we will support the legal use of existing raw accommodation by changing its use.

As a result, we will propose an amendment to the Building Act within this year to allow new ripening to be sold only over 30 rooms, more than a third of the building, or more than an independent floor.

In addition, in order to induce existing accommodation owners to report their accommodation business, the ordinance was revised according to local government conditions to ease the standards for reporting the accommodation business.

We have improved the repurposing of officetels to facilitate them.

In this regard, we will listen to the officials of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

[Jang Woo-cheol / Building Policy Officer, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport: Before the announcement of this measure, we will actively support the use of officetels for residential accommodation facilities that have applied for building permits. Until now, there have been cases in which it has been virtually difficult to change the use due to uniform regulations such as corridor width and parking lot. In the future, we will introduce a more realistic and flexible regulatory method to the extent that it does not damage the original legislative purpose and social values, such as safety and residential environment.]

[Anchor]
Then, how is the evaluation of this support plan?

[Reporter]
Yes. Considering that the grace period for the compulsory performance fee mentioned earlier was until the end of this year, it was time for measures to cultivate the market for raw cooking.

Even now, it is evaluated that it was timely for the mitigation policy to be implemented so that raw ripening can be normalized.

Some say it is positive in terms of relieving well-intentioned victims, as it was a problem caused by the last government's excessive real estate regulations.

The construction industry, such as the Korea Construction Association, is also welcoming it as a measure to resolve market confusion.

However, some point out that there has been an undesirable precedent of legalizing it under the concept of a special measure.