Seoul apartments averaged 13.98 million won per square meter in 2025, five times the provincial average, a National Assembly Futures Institute report found. The report calls for policy set region by region: Seoul is short of new supply, while the provinces hold a growing pile of unsold homes, more than half of them already built.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
Gyeonggi Province has asked Seoul to designate 6.9 square kilometers of Paju a Peace Economic Zone under a 2 trillion won plan. Paju is one of several sites the province is preparing for a program meant to produce only about four zones nationwide.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
Gyeonggi Governor Choo Mi-ae wants Korea's planned 162.3 trillion won fund to reinvest its semiconductor tax windfall in the regions that produced it. Her proposals touch three of the fund's four accounts, and the criteria she wants would steer much of that money toward Yongin, Pyeongtaek and Icheon.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Gyeonggi's governor wants the local consumption tax rate taken from 25.3% to 40.3% in stages, plus a twentieth of corporate tax revenue sent to regional governments. Kim Min-seok said the party would discuss it.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives76
- Confidence52
The final enforcement decree of Korea's semiconductor competitiveness act deletes the clause that would have barred the capital region from applying, and softens four more non-capital preferences.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
- Confidence46
MOLIT has finalized an equity-accumulation format for part of its public housing: 25 percent at move-in, the rest in tranches over 20 to 30 years. First units could price in the fourth quarter.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives62
- Confidence44
A standard new-build unit in Gyeonggi now averages 727.6 million won, up 192.44 million since 2022. In Guri the four-year gain is 64.4%, and most of it landed in the last twelve months.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives74
- Confidence45