South Korea's land ministry creates housing supply promotion headquarters

South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) reorganised its housing bureaucracy at the end of December 2025. It raised its public housing promotion team, previously run as a separate unit led by a director-general, into a housing supply promotion headquarters headed by a senior official at office-chief level.

The change gathered housing supply functions that had been spread across the ministry. The new headquarters was given responsibility for managing and carrying out the main supply tools: new-town and other land development, housing in urban areas, and private redevelopment and reconstruction projects. Reports put its size at nine divisions and 77 staff. The ministry said a permanent structure would give the work more stability, accountability and consistency than a temporary-style team.

The move supported the government's goal of starting construction on 1.35 million homes in the Seoul metropolitan area over five years from 2026 to 2030. It followed a joint task force set up with the state developer Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) in November 2025 to speed up urban housing supply. Later proposals for stalled projects build on this structure.