A conservative lawmaker on Thursday floated bills to address foreign buying of South Korean real estate and to tackle the malicious practice of landlords failing to return deposits to tenants under the country's "jeonse" housing lease system, in which tenants pay a large upfront deposit instead of monthly rent.
Rep. Kim Hee-jung of the main opposition People Power Party introduced a legislative package of five bills that would impose new curbs on non-Korea
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