"Announcement of charter fraud prevention measures" "Initiation of Villa King Prevention Act"
Looking at the government's countermeasures and bills against 'Villa King', it seems that the charter fraud problem has been resolved.
But it's still too early to be relieved.
This is because government countermeasures are empty checks if they do not come up with a legal basis, and very few of the bills put forward by lawmakers are made into actual laws.
In fact, as a result of analyzing 236 cases of charter-related law amendments proposed by the 20th and 21st National Assembly, 77 cases were related to charter fraud, of which 17 cases were discarded due to the expiration of the term, and 48 cases remain in the standing committee.
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it, there were many cases where necessary legislation, such as the disclosure of the list of malicious renters, was caught in the National Assembly or neglected in indifference.
We have summarized the history of legislative failures that missed the timing of charter fraud prevention.
Legislative failure ① Won Hee-ryong "Villa king list revealed!"... Member of the ruling party "Will there be an effect?"
As damages from charter fraud continued to erupt, on September 1 of last year, the government announced that it would disclose a list of malicious lessors.
Disclosure of the list of malicious landlords is considered the most urgent measure to prevent additional damage to tenants.
[Won Hee-ryong / Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (September 1 of last year)]
We will build a self-diagnosis safe charter application and release it in January so that tenants can grasp essential information such as a list of malicious landlords at a glance.
However, the app, which is due to be released tomorrow (February 1), does not contain a roster of malicious renters.
It's because we haven't been able to prepare the basis law.
In May 2021, a bill to disclose the list of landlords whose rental business registration was canceled due to a delay in the return of the deposit (Rep. Byung-Hoon So), and in September 2021, a bill to disclose the list of landlords who were repaid by the Housing and City Guarantee Corporation (Rep. Sang-Hoon Kim) ) even though it was proposed.
It was a member of the ruling party, People's Power, who prevented the release of the list.
At the subcommittee on the National Land Committee held three weeks after Minister Won Hee-ryong announced that he would release the list, Rep. A, a former official of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, objected, saying, “Is there any effectiveness?”
The two bills eventually failed to pass the so-called, and no further discussions took place thereafter.
The preparation of key measures was delayed due to the legislative mismatch between the government and the ruling party lawmakers.
When adding the additional bills proposed in July (Rep. Kim Seung-nam) and December (Rep. Jang Chul-min) of last year, there are a total of four bills related to the list disclosure currently pending in the National Assembly.
We look forward to swift legislation to prevent further damage.
Legislative failure② "If the landlord changes, the tenant is notified"... I couldn't go to the plenary session despite the 5th motion
Victims of charter fraud often burst into anger when they found out belatedly that the landlord had changed to a villa king or a boss.
You need to know that the landlord has changed so that you can determine whether there is damage and respond, but no information is being provided to the tenant.
The Supreme Court judges that if the lessee raises an objection within a considerable period of time from knowing the landlord's transfer of the house, he can get out of the contractual relationship, but the device to inform this is missing in the law.
It wasn't that there was a lack of legislative initiatives.
The bill to notify tenants when the landlord changes has been proposed five times in the 20th and 21st National Assembly, but has not reached legislation.
The bills proposed in September 2016 (former lawmaker Kim Hyun-ah) and July 2017 (former lawmaker Je Yoon-kyung) were automatically discarded after the 20th National Assembly ended without making it to the plenary session of the National Assembly.
In the 21st National Assembly, it has been proposed three times: in November 2020 (Rep. Byeong-Hoon So), in November last year (Rep. Hak-Yong Kim), and on the 20th (Rep. Sang-Hyeok Park), but it has not even been discussed at the standing committee.
If the National Assembly had done its job in time, it would have relieved the frustration of the victims of charter fraud.
The September 2016 bill, initiated by former lawmaker Kim Hyun-ah, is noteworthy in that it goes beyond requiring landlords to notify tenants when concluding a home sale contract, and gives tenants the right to terminate the contract.
This bill was submitted to the Judiciary Committee, but was not discussed properly in the face of impeachment, and was subsequently scrapped due to the expiration of the term without crossing the threshold of the standing committee.
The key measures to stop the president of the pants did not come to fruition amid the National Assembly's indifference.
Legislative failure ③ It was necessary, but… Legislation poorly buried
Government measures are often a rehash of past legislation.
The amendment to the Housing Lease Protection Act, announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport from November of last year, includes content that requires tenants before a charter contract to request information such as tax arrears from the landlord unless there is a justifiable reason.
It is a necessary bill to prevent damage before the contract, but it turns out that a bill with the same content was proposed in April 2019 (former lawmaker Jeong In-hwa), but it was not even presented to the standing committee.