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
Seoul's apartment price index is closing on a record run of weekly gains, and President Lee Jae-myung says the remedy is still balanced national development, so the curbs on loans and taxes stay in place.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence58
AllMyTour counted a 6.5% rise in Chinese bookings across South Korea over the Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays. Busan rose 119.5% against Seoul's 4.2%, and those three figures fix how small Busan's base still is.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Record 10.71 million first-half arrivals carried the story, though the per-head arithmetic did the work of narrowing the tourism deficit to $1.26bn, and per-visitor dollars sit just 3.7% above 2019 seven years on.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption76
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence48
Seoul rebuilt one downtown corridor in about two years; Zürich has restored small segments since the 1980s. Both leave city hall the same four tasks, and the harder ones are maintenance funding and displacement planning.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption50
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives35
- Confidence45
Seoul home prices rose 1.09% in July, wider than June, with the steepest gains in the city's cheaper northern districts. The bid is rotating into redevelopment stories, not fading.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption52
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives38
- Confidence60