After the opposition said, "President Lee Jae-myung should also sell the apartment he does not actually live in," Park Ji-won of the Democratic Party of Korea wrote on social media on the 8th, "When the president's term ends, shouldn't the president return home?" and "This is going way too far." In response, Joo Jin-woo of the People Power Party pressed, "Why are you telling only the public to sell their homes?"
Park wrote on Facebook that day, "No former president, after taking office and moving into the presidential residence at the Blue House, was ever asked to sell the home they had lived in, and such noise was never made." Park added, "That's because when the president's term ends, the president returns to their own private residence, and when a public official's term ends, they return to their own home." Park went on, "How can there be such an uproar telling President Lee Jae-myung to sell the Bundang apartment?"
Earlier, on the 5th, People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok noted on social media, "President Lee also has kept an apartment he does not actually live in for more than four years," after which the People Power Party has been attacking day after day, telling the president to sell his dwellings as well. During last year's presidential campaign, the president reported that he and first lady Kim Hea-kyung jointly owned an apartment in Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province (1.456 billion won).
Joo wrote on social media on the 7th, "Lee Jae-myung, the lawmaker for Gyeyang-b, promised to sell the Bundang apartment in 2023, listed it for 2.4 billion won, then quietly pulled the listing," adding, "Lee Jae-myung's Bundang apartment was designated as a leading district for reconstruction. He agreed to the reconstruction, eyeing a market profit."
In a post that day, Joo wrote, "What is going way too far is President Lee Jae-myung," adding, "No former president has ever tied the entire city of Seoul and 12 locations in Gyeonggi Province under the land transaction permit system, blocking sales altogether unless it is for actual residence." Joo continued, "Multiple-home owners were demonized, and even single-home owners without actual residence were treated as speculators," adding, "One out of every three key Blue House officials owns multiple homes. The president himself is waiting for reconstruction of the Bundang apartment without actually living there."