Since 10 June 2025, Korea's muhsunwi cheongyak (unranked, first-come housing application, colloquially "jupjup") is open only to members of a household in which nobody owns a home. The amended Rules on Housing Supply, issued as Ministry of Land ordinance No. 1501, took effect that day, closing a door that had been open to any resident adult regardless of property ownership. It is not enough for the applicant to be homeless — every household member must be.
That is where most applications fail. "Household member" is not a synonym for the people you live with: a spouse registered at a separate address counts, while a brother on your own registration certificate does not. Applications run for a single day on the Cheongyak Home portal, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Who can apply now
The policy direction is set out in material collected by the KDI Economic Information and Education Center: restrict eligibility to non-homeowners, and impose residency requirements flexibly. Where capital gains or competition run high, the local government can require residency in that district; where unsold inventory is a concern, the offering can open nationwide with no residency condition. That is why the residency rule differs from complex to complex.
The real gate is not home ownership but the definition of "household." A homeless household member belongs to a household in which no member owns a home, and household composition is fixed by Article 2 of the Rules on Housing Supply: the applicant, the spouse, and the direct ascendants and descendants listed on the same resident registration certificate as either the applicant or the spouse.
Two traps follow. First, a spouse counts even when registered separately, and per KB, the direct ascendants and descendants on that spouse's certificate are pulled in as well. Second, siblings, aunts and uncles are never household members, even on the same certificate — anyone who is not a direct ascendant or descendant sits outside the scope.
Is my household homeless? Six worked cases
Applying Article 2 to real family structures splits as follows, assuming the applicant personally owns nothing.
| Situation | Owner | Household member? | Can apply |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse registered separately | spouse | Yes — separation is irrelevant | No |
| Parents on the same certificate | father | Yes — co-registered ascendant | No |
| Parents on a different certificate | father | No | Yes |
| Brother on the same certificate | brother | No — not a direct relative | Yes |
| Separated spouse living with their parents | father-in-law | Yes — ascendant on spouse's certificate | No |
| Applicant holds a pre-sale right | applicant | applicant | No |
Rows three and four are where outcomes diverge in practice. Sharing a registration certificate with home-owning parents blocks the application outright, while a separate certificate keeps their property out of the assessment. A sibling's property, by contrast, has no effect either way. Splitting a household can manufacture eligibility in one case and is pointless in the other.
The last row reflects that pre-sale rights (bunyangkwon) and occupancy rights (ipjukwon) count as home ownership, with exceptions tied to when they were acquired — so the contract date and the original recruitment notice date both matter. How the two differ for acquisition tax and home count is covered in the ipjukwon versus bunyangkwon breakdown.
Three different doors, not one
What gets lumped together as "jupjup" is really three things. Using the categories set out by KB: post-acceptance recruitment re-offers units left by disqualified winners or withdrawn contracts before contracts are signed; discretionary supply covers inventory still unsold after that round; and cancelled-contract re-supply returns units whose contracts were voided over illegal resale.
| Type | Units covered | Eligibility | Savings account |
|---|---|---|---|
| Post-acceptance recruitment | disqualified or withdrawn units, pre-contract | homeless household member + optional local residency | Not required |
| Discretionary supply | unsold units after the unranked round | set by the developer — some notices allow homeowners | Not required |
| Cancelled-contract re-supply | units voided over illegal resale | stated in the notice (homeless and residency conditions) | Per the notice |
The homeless requirement attaches to post-acceptance recruitment. Notices that homeowners can still enter are notices for discretionary supply.
Two notices from the same complex in the same week can carry different eligibility rules. Reading the type on the first page — unranked or discretionary — is step one.
Winning triggers the re-winning restriction
An unranked application is still an application. Signing a contract after winning triggers the same re-winning restriction as a regular application, for up to ten years. Because no savings account and no points contest are involved, these units get treated as a free shot — but the record closes off special supply and regulated-area general supply for that entire period. The period-by-period arithmetic is in the ten-year re-winning restriction calculation.
Applications are filed online through Cheongyak Home on the single announced day, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.: log in, select the unit type, confirm eligibility and complete digital signature authentication. The amended rules also restrict verification of eligibility documents to registered sales agents and add supervisory measures — document checks are tighter than before.
What to check
- Confirm the type on the first page of the notice — unranked post-acceptance versus discretionary supply decides whether homeowners may apply
- Pull your resident registration certificate and sort everyone on it into ascendants, descendants and siblings — siblings drop out of the assessment
- If your spouse is registered separately, pull that certificate too and check property held by the ascendants and descendants on it
- Read the residency condition for that specific complex — local governments set it per notice, so it varies within a single district
- Check the contract date and original recruitment notice date of any pre-sale or occupancy right you hold
- Calculate the restriction period a win would impose, and see whether it overlaps your later application plans
Sources
- Unranked applications now go to non-homeowners and local residents (KDI)
- How unranked applications are changing: conditions and procedure (KB)
- Buying a new apartment — general supply (Easy Law)
- Amendment history of the Rules on Housing Supply (Korean Law Information Center)
- From householder to homeless-householder conditions (KB)