{
  "id": 11401090,
  "title": "Foreign homeownership in Korea surges 30% over 3 years, approaching 100,000 mark",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/foreign-homeownership-in-korea-surges-30-over-3-years-approaching-100-11401090",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-02T09:07:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/others/20261002/foreign-homeownership-in-korea-surges-30-over-3-years-approaching-100000-mark"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Foreign nationals owned nearly 100,000 homes in Korea last year, marking a 30.3 percent increase in multiunit residential properties over three years, according to government data. Vietnamese nationals saw the fastest growth, with their holdings surging 112 percent from 842 to 1,786 properties. Chinese nationals accounted for the bulk of the growth, with their holdings climbing 37.2 percent from 43,058 to 59,082 units. American nationals remained the second-largest foreign group.",
  "summary": "Foreign nationals owned nearly 100,000 homes in multiunit housing, or \"gongdong jutaek\" — a category spanning high-rise apartments to low-rise \"dasedae\" multifamily homes — in Korea last year, with ownership rising roughly 30 percent over three years and Vietnamese holdings more than doubling, according to government data submitted to a lawmaker. The data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "Foreign homeownership in Korea surges 30% over 3 years, approaching 100,000 mark",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/foreign-homeownership-in-korea-surges-30-over-3-years-approaching-100",
        "published": "2026-10-02T08:42:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}