- Rep. Hwang Hee suggests on Facebook: "Convert buses at 50 million KRW each to provide short-term housing"
- Online and youth communities push back fiercely: "My daughter can't live there, but someone else's child in a bus?"
- People Power Party joins criticism: "Insulting the youth without providing proper housing"
- Post deleted as controversy grows… Seen as a misstep amid bipartisan battles over housing supply responsibility

Rep. Hwang Hee, a three-term veteran lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea, has retracted his proposal within a day after facing fierce criticism from the youth and the public for suggesting that scrapped buses be remodeled into youth living spaces. Critics slammed the idea as a textbook example of 'desk administration' that ignores the reality of young people suffering from lease fraud and loan burdens, calling it an 'insult to the youth.'

On the 7th, Rep. Hwang, a member of the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, took to social media to suggest introducing 'mobile bus houses' in South Korea, citing the example of boat houses in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His logic was that if remodeling costs are estimated at 50 million KRW per bus, investing 500 billion KRW for 10,000 households could overcome the limitations of government housing supply—which is slow due to heavy reliance on the private sector—and quickly provide young people with short-term temporary housing.

However, immediately after the proposal was made public, intense criticism erupted, particularly centered around online communities and the youth generation. Netizens expressed frustration, arguing that it treats young people like refugees. Some real estate communities brought up a past incident where presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom resisted a question asking if he could 'recommend rental housing to his own daughter,' pointing out the double standards in the political circle's perception of housing.

The opposition party also launched an offensive. People Power Assembly Senior Spokesperson Park Choong-kwon launched a direct attack, stating that telling young people to live in remodeled scrapped buses without any practical housing supply measures is a clear insult to the youth generation.

As the fallout grew, Rep. Hwang deleted the post and tried to quell the controversy by explaining that it was merely a pure idea intended for those living in poor environments such as gosiwons (budget studio rooms). Nevertheless, given that the Democratic Party leadership has recently been strongly asserting that Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and the People Power Party are responsible for the housing supply cliff crisis in Seoul, critics point out that the half-baked policy announcement by a senior lawmaker from the ruling party actually provided the opposition with grounds for a counterattack.