Jeong Jeomsik: "Will Pursue Legal Action" Over Moon Administration Real Estate Blacklist Allegations

Jeong Jeomsik, floor leader of the People Power Party, said on Oct. 8 that the party would pursue legal action against key figures, including former Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kim Hyun-mi, over allegations that the government under the Moon Jae-in administration created a blacklist of private citizens who criticized its real estate policies and illegally surveilled them.

Jeong Jeomsik, floor leader of the People Power Party, delivers opening remarks at a meeting on parliamentary audit preparations at the National Assembly on Oct. 6, 2026. Photo by Yoon Dongju

At a meeting on pending issues at the National Assembly that afternoon, Jeong said, "The Environment Ministry under the Moon Jae-in government created a blacklist of executives at affiliated organizations who had been appointed under the previous administration. Taking these latest allegations into account, it was truly a blacklist regime."

The previous day, People Power Party lawmaker Kim Eun-hye disclosed a document titled "Status of Real Estate Experts" during a parliamentary audit by the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee. According to Kim, the document listed 19 people, including YouTubers, experts, businesspeople and journalists who had criticized the government's real estate regulations at the time, along with their key remarks.

Jeong said the document "even linked the targets' real estate holdings to their criticism of government real estate policies and framed them as far-right forces." He added, "They resorted to such despicable tactics to silence criticism of the failures of their real estate policies."

Jeong said, "Were the Environment Ministry and the Land Ministry really the only ministries that created blacklists?" He added, "This case cannot end with the parliamentary audit. A thorough investigation is needed into everyone involved in producing the document."

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