Nine research topics to be presented across four sessions, covering youth housing, super-aged society and more
Korea Land and Housing Corp. (LH) is bringing together academics and public and private sector experts to assess pressing challenges in land and housing policy that directly affect people's lives and to explore policy alternatives.
LH announced Monday that it will hold the "2026 Land and Housing Research Institute (LHRI) Companion Concert" at Coex in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on Thursday.
The event is designed to share key research findings from LH's Land and Housing Research Institute last year with the public and to work with government and research institution experts toward effective policy solutions. This year's concert, themed "Homes, Cities and Energy for All," will focus on a broad range of land and housing issues, including housing price outlooks, youth housing stability, responses to a super-aged society and the pursuit of carbon neutrality.
Running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the event will be divided into four sessions — market and strategy, housing and residential, land and region, and technology and ESG — with a total of nine research topics addressed across the sessions.
The first session will unveil a new methodology for forecasting housing prices that integrates time and spatial dimensions, along with research analyzing how people navigate the choice between homeownership and financial investment. The second session will present a tailored youth housing support model based on life stages and propose ways to boost housing supply in urban areas through mixed-use development on public sites.
The third session will focus on residential alternatives suited to an aging society, putting on the table a retirement village model as a new housing trend for a super-aged society and a plan for redeveloping aging permanent rental housing units. The final technology session will showcase advances in modular housing technology, strategies for transforming cities into carbon-absorbing environments, and a pilot case of an apartment complex aiming for zero maintenance fees through energy self-sufficiency.
No advance registration is required, and the public is welcome to attend by visiting the venue on the day.
Jeong Chang-mu, head of the LH Land and Housing Research Institute, said the concert is "a meaningful occasion to widely share research achievements centered on issues that people feel in their daily lives," adding that the institute will "concentrate its efforts on delivering LHRI's academic findings more closely to the public and to the policy arena, and on presenting new milestones in land and housing policy through close collaboration with academia, government and private enterprises."
Meanwhile, LHRI serves as LH's think tank for the housing and urban sector. It was launched in its current form in 2009 when Korea Land Corp. and Korea National Housing Corp. merged to form LH.
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