Kim Ei-tak, the first Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said on the 22nd that the government is focusing its policy capacity not only on support for victims of jeonse fraud, such as introducing a "minimum support payment" system in which the state guarantees the recovery of at least minimal losses for young people, but also on preventing jeonse fraud.
The Vice Minister said this while attending the inauguration ceremony for the second class of the young supporters group "Careful Safe Jeonse," held at the National Territorial Development Exhibition Hall in Jung-gu, Seoul, that day.
Careful Safe Jeonse is a youth supporters group that takes part in publicity campaigns related to policies for preventing and supporting victims of jeonse fraud. Twenty-four university students nationwide, who passed document screening and interviews at a competition rate of about 3-to-1, were selected as the second class of supporters. The activity period runs for six months from next month through November.
Addressing the second class of supporters, the Vice Minister said, "I hope Careful Safe Jeonse will inform the public from a youth perspective about safe ways to sign jeonse contracts, and that, through this, awareness of a sound jeonse culture will spread throughout society."