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![President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a meeting with senior aides at the Blue House in Seoul on Feb. 12. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12124445.jpg?imageId=12124445&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Apartment complexes in Songpa District, as seen from Seoul Sky observatory in May. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12339060.jpg?imageId=12339060&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Korea had the fastest rising home prices in the third quarter, according to Knight Frank on Saturday. Seoul's apartment complexes and houses are in view in this photo taken on Sunday at Namsan, central Seoul. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10270764.jpg?imageId=10270764&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A view of apartments in central Seoul from Seoul Sky, the observatory at the top of the Lotte World Tower in Songpa District, southern Seoul on Oct. 5. According to the Korea Appraisal Board, jeonse prices of apartments in September rose by 0.53 percent compared to a month earlier, the largest on-month increase since April 2015. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10101185.jpg?imageId=10101185&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![An apartment complex in Songpa District, southern Seoul. [NEWS1]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/12236071.jpg?imageId=12236071&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Major apartment complexes that are set for reconstruction work showed signs of price recovery over the long weekend holiday, which runs between April 30 and May 3. Prices for the Jamsil Jugong 5 Danji apartment complex in southern Seoul, pictured above, which fell to as low as 1.82 billion won last month due to heavy tax regulations, rose to 1.9 billion won this month. [YONHAP]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10133075.jpg?imageId=10133075&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)