However it was a rented house, she would have regarded it as her kith and kin as she had lived there for as many as 70 years. Yet, an 87-year-old woman in the capital of a civilized country found herself kicked out of her home where she spent most of her life because she failed to pay the rent.
This meant she was deprived of her naïve right to spend the rest of her life in her old house.
It sparked outrage among resident advocacy groups, accompanied by a series of protest actions. Nevertheless, there is little hope that the protesters’ call for easing the housing crisis and checking real estate speculation is likely to come true.
Housing problem is now of global concern. House prices have gone through the roof in almost every country to such an extent that statistical information of some percent rise over the previous ones is no longer meaningful, for they have now turned into nooses around the neck of people.
Such a basic human desire for living a happy family life in one’s own house requires that home prices or rent should remain woes no longer. Now that houses serve as space for gaining profits, this is quite wishful thinking.
But there is a paradisaical country where such a problem never exists as if it were a lie. Many of the foreigners who have visited socialist Korea in the East contend that Korean people are unaware of such words as “rent” and “house prices.” In the country the government covers the cost of building houses, which are distributed to residents for free.
Actually, netizens will be able to easily find photos and footages showing Koreans who are happy to move into new houses.
According to data available, between 2021 and 2025 alone the DPRK government undertook a project to build nearly 60 000 flats in the capital city of Pyongyang to supply them to ordinary working people, especially blue- and white-collar workers. In this period numerous modern houses were built also in other parts of the country, and local farmers and workers moved into them.
With large-scale housing construction going on in the capital and provinces, Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, has taken a measure to build new flats in all the coal mine villages across the country from next year.
Therefore, the Korean people do not know even the word “house prices” and live in their own houses provided gratis by the state.
If possible, I’d like to visit the DPRK without fail to see that unbelievable reality by myself.
