Lee Eok-won: “Basic hacking response is insufficient… AI must be used to block it.”

Regarding the recent hacking incident of artificial intelligence (AI) agents in the financial sector, Financial Services Commission Chairman Lee Eok-won pointed out on the 8th, "Our response method is very inadequate in even the most basic aspects."

Chairman Lee responded to a related question from Social Democratic Party lawmaker Han Chang-min during an audit of the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee targeting the Financial Services Commission and others this morning, saying, "I think we need to thoroughly examine these areas and make changes."

He then reiterated, "In order to prevent AI (attacks), we ultimately have no choice but to use AI," and added, "We are looking at various step-by-step and effective methods on how to change the network separation regulation."

Meanwhile, when People Power Party lawmaker Shin Dong-wook pointed out the situation in which apartment prices in Seoul continue to rise despite real estate policies including high-intensity lending regulations, he said, "I think it would probably have been worse if we hadn't done it."

Regarding the strong loan regulations that limited home mortgage loans to a maximum of 600 million won, he said, "At that time, the high-priced houses in Gangnam were driving the overall increase in house prices, so most people evaluated that the measure was effective."

When Rep. Shin pointed out, referring to President Lee Jae-myung's 'flattening' remarks, "According to this logic, if (house prices) continue to rise due to the flattening process, wouldn't the measures and results be the opposite?" Chairman Lee said, "That's why we are focusing on supply. We will quickly expand supply and stabilize the market."

Previously, at a press conference last month, while explaining the recent phenomenon of falling house prices in Gangnam and rising house prices in areas other than Gangnam, President Lee said, “It seems like a kind of leveling process is underway.”

As some criticized this, saying, 'Isn't it a good thing to say that housing prices in places other than Gangnam have risen?', the Blue House explained that it was an explanation about the trend of price fluctuations.