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Fact-Checking the National Housing Policy Forum

This fact-check examines thirteen claims from South Korea's July 2026 National Debate on Real Estate Policy, presided over by President Lee Jae Myung, verifying statements against official statistics from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Statistics Korea, and the OECD. The analysis finds one claim factually incorrect (that redevelopment typically reduces total households), two half-true (property tax comparisons with advanced economies and consensus on tax strengthening), two conditionally true (effective capital gains tax rates), and seven accurate. The report distinguishes between different analytical frameworks for measuring housing supply effects and property tax burdens, revealing how conflicting claims can simultaneously capture partial truths depending on methodology.