upped my boys rent by 40% in a pandemic 
*youtube clip*
His other comment:
"Small addition: what happened is that the government of South Korea tried to limit rental prices by forcing land owners to only increase annual rent by about 5% max, but somehow this leaked before the law passed and the bill backfired as the land owners started to raise prices by 20-50% in a very short period of time. My rental contract was supposed to be renewed on September 1 and well the new rent had too many numbers in it. Luckily, some land owners are wonderful and did not raise the price that much, so I was lucky enough to find a place starting in October. And yeah, it was very unexpected and very unfortunate as this is in the middle of pandemic and a roaming financial crisis. Let's hope this is the worst of 2020. Best of luck to all of you!"
Ouch. Thaaaaaaat really blows. Kill the landlords time again?
But for real. Somehow I feel like the government botched it unlike say, was it Berlin, that was able to enact something where rent could not go up for several years. Granted I don't know how that all turned out, but I never heard of rental prices going through the roof in Berlin following that story. And South Korea is a pretty expensive country to begin with.
Phewwwww... life is hard
