![]() In the mid to late 2010s, the number of local apartments purchased by expatriates showed a relatively steady trend - 3,004 units in 2016, 3,188 in 2017, 3,697 in 2018 and 3,930 in 2019.Įxpat purchases surged to 5,640 units in 2020, as Korean households faced tough state-led mortgage rules since the late 2019. The Land Ministry had only made public statistics on the foreign-owned land twice a year. This marked the first time that the government has publicized statistics on foreigner-purchased apartments. This comes to a total of 24,320 units (81.6 percent), of which 4 in 5 were purchased by Chinese or US nationals over the corresponding period. The number of units bought by US citizens came to 5,855 with a 19.6 percent share. Of them, Chinese nationals bought 18,465 units, which accounted for 62 percent of total foreigner home purchases. Yang Kyung-sook of the Democratic Party of Korea from both the Land Ministry and the Korea Real Estate Board, foreigners bought 29,792 apartments in the local property market between January 2015 and August 2022. Pope Francis dispensed of the requirement of having a miracle attributed to him after beatification.SEJONG - More than 80 percent of all apartment purchases by foreigners over the past seven years were made by US and Chinese nationals, an opposition party lawmaker said on Monday.Īccording to relevant documents, which were handed over to Rep. He died in 1905 in Piacenza, where he was bishop, and was beatified in 1997 by St. Scalabrini founded the Missionaries of Saint Charles Borromeo, known as the Scalabrian Fathers, and the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo Scalabrians, to minister to the many Italians who left their homeland due to what he wrote were the combined effects of an agricultural crisis, social change, a poorly managed economy, exorbitant taxation and “the natural desire to improve one’s condition.”ĭisturbed by statistics on Italian emigration that swelled to 84,000 in 1884 alone, Scalabrini wrote that the mass emigration and separation of families would “help strew white the lands of America with their bones.” The pontiff said the two new saints “remind us of the importance or walking together.”įrancis said that Scalabrani showed “great vision,’’ by looking forward “to a world and a Church without barriers, where no one was a foreigner." And the pontiff called Zatti “a living example of gratitude” who devoted his life to serving others after being cured of tuberculosis. He urged the faithful to consider the treatment of migrants, asking: ‘’Do we welcome them as brothers, or do we exploit them?” READ | Pope appeals to Russian President Putin to end 'spiral of violence' in Ukraine No, we exclude them, we send them away to lager, where they are exploited and sold as slaves.” Not to open the doors to those who are in need. The situation of migrants is disgusting, sinful, criminal. ![]() They are left to die in front of us, making the Mediterranean the largest cemetery in the world. “Indeed, the situation of migrants is criminal. ![]() Peter’s Square for the canonizations of Don Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, an Italian bishop who founded an order to help Italian emigrants in 1887, and Artedime Zatti, an Italian who emigrated in 1897 to Argentina and dedicated his life as a lay-worker there to helping the sick. “The exclusion of migrants is scandalous,’’ Francis said, generating applause from the faithful gathered in St. He also recalled the plight of Ukrainians fleeing war, which he said “causes us great suffering.” ![]() Pope Francis on Sunday denounced Europe's indifference toward migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea as he elevated to sainthood an Italian bishop and Italian-born missionary whose work and life paths illustrated the difficulties faced by 19th Century Italian emigrants.įrances departed from prepared remarks to slam Europe's treatment of migrants as “disgusting, sinful and criminal.” He noted that people from outside the continent are often left to die during perilous sea crossings or pushed back to Libya, where they wind up in camps he referred to as “lager,” the German word referring to Nazi concentration camps. ![]()
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