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Land Minister nominee apologizes for past remarks at hearing Byeon vows to supply more homes in station areas, agrees with ‘one home per household’ | Land Minister nominee Byeon Chang-heum takes his oath of office at a confirmation hearing held at the National Assembly on Wednesday. (Yonhap) Land Minister nominee Byeon Chang-heum repeatedly apologized for controversial past remarks after being blasted by opposition lawmakers at his confirmation hearing Wednesday. He also pledged to supply more homes in station areas to address housing shortages. At the parliamentary confirmation hearin...

Disapproval grows for land minister nominee Posted : 2020-12-23 16:45 Updated : 2020-12-23 16:54 Land minister nominee Byeon Chang-heum apologizes for his past controversial remarks and other allegations during his confirmation hearing at the National Assembly in Seoul, Wednesday. / Yonhap By Kang Seung-woo A National Assembly confirmation hearing of besieged land minister nominee Byeon Chang-heum found, Wednesday, that disapproval of him by the opposition bloc was showing no signs of abating due to his past controversial remarks and alleged misdeeds. Lawmakers from the main opposition Peo...

Shameful bureaucrats Time to vet candidates for public posts more rigorously Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister-nominee Byeon Chang-heum is under fire for remarks he made while serving as president of the Seoul Housing and Communities Corp. (SH). According to the June 2016 minutes of SH released by the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), the nominee, while referring to a 2016 accident in a metro station, attributed the death of a 19-year-old maintenance worker to his own mistakes. "Nothing would have happened had he paid more heed. A person died for nothing and this shook mun...