Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Hwang Hee (Seoul Yangcheon-gu-gap) wrote on Facebook on the 7th, "Let's provide scrapped buses as short-term housing for young people," drawing a third straight day of fierce attacks from the conservative opposition camp. Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok criticized it as "an honest and desolate confession that the Democratic Party of Korea has no supply plan."
Choi Bo-yun, senior spokesperson of the People Power Party, said in a commentary that day, "Lawmaker Hwang's idea of a bus house remodeled from a scrapped bus as a youth housing plan is a bizarre happening that shows the total chaos of Lee Jae-myung's government real estate policy and its serious disconnect from reality."
She added, "The absurdity of citing overseas examples while saying they will supply as many as 10,000 units with scrapped buses starkly proves how lightly the current administration and the ruling party have treated people's lives and the desperate feelings of young people." She continued, "Since they lack the capacity to present a proper plan to supply urban dwellings, they are ultimately mocking the younger generation with a sleight-of-hand stopgap called a 'bus house.'"
People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok wrote on Facebook, aiming at the current administration, "An administration that puts out something like a 'scrapped bus youth dwellings' as policy," and "An administration that runs around rice paddies to survey farmland and chases down tax delinquents and calls that 'youth jobs.'" He also wrote, "An administration that only watches the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and cannot even touch 'the yellow envelope law, a new labor law aimed at strengthening the bargaining rights of subcontract workers.'" In a post the previous day, Jang wrote, "For (scrapped bus dwellings), how about having the president, the Minister, Blue House senior secretaries, and children of Democratic Party of Korea lawmakers move in first as a pilot case."
Leader Lee Jun-seok wrote on Facebook the previous day, "What people want is not a moving home but a home that does not have to move." He added, "In the United States, the home of trailer living, vehicle residence is not counted in housing statistics. It is counted in homelessness statistics," and asked, "How do you connect water and sewage—which is hard to connect even to a stationary farm shed—to 10,000 moving vehicles."
He continued, "In Yangcheon-gap, Hwang's district, all 14 complexes in Mok-dong are on a reconstruction track," adding, "Luxury residential complexes and a promise to lift the land transaction permit system for the district, and buses for the young."
Meanwhile, Hwang deleted the Facebook post with the "scrapped bus youth dwellings" idea about two hours after a flood of criticism following his post on the 7th. The Democratic Party of Korea said in a notice to the media, "Lawmaker Hwang's Facebook post was an entirely personal opinion unrelated to the party's position."