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Byeon s apologies outstrip policies
Posted : 2021-03-10 17:12
Updated : 2021-03-10 17:12
Land Minister Byeon Chang-heum bows ahead of a press briefing at the Government Complex Seoul, March 4. He apologized for alleged speculative land buying by some employees at the Korea Land & Housing Corp. using confidential information. Yonhap
By Kim Rahn
Land Minister Byeon Chang-heum had to make a public apology even before he took office. Since he was nominated to lead the nation s real estate policy on Dec. 4 last year, public criticism against his past inappropriate remarks and his following apologies have made bigger headlines than his policies.
When he was nominated for the minister position, a past remark he made when he was head of the Seoul Housing & Communities Corp. (SH) surfaced. It was about an accident at Guui Station in Seoul in 2016, where a subcontracted 19-year-old irregular worker was killed by a subway train while fixing a safety door on a subway platform. At the t