“Tenant’s 300 million won deposit gone”... A landlord’s bizarre plan after a failed stock investment prompts the response, “What kind of crazy talk is that?” [What do you think?]

[Financial News] A landlord’s story has sparked controversy after the landlord reportedly lost even the 300 million won jeonse deposit owed to the tenant in a failed stock investment.

On the 16th, a post titled “The tenant’s 300 million won jeonse deposit—I was liquidated through a forced sale” appeared on Blind, an anonymous community for office workers.
The author, identified only as A, began by saying, “A forced sale happened on the 14th, and I was completely liquidated on the 15th. The problem is, I didn’t just lose my own money—I also lost the tenant’s 300 million won jeonse deposit.”
He stressed, “I absolutely had no intention of investing the tenant’s jeonse deposit. It wasn’t intentional.”
He lamented, “The tenant’s lease ends next February. It would be a relief if they agreed to renew, but if they don’t or I can’t find a new tenant, I won’t have any money to pay the tenant.”
A said, “The idea I came up with is not to return the 300 million won to the current tenant, but to take 300 million won from a new tenant and invest that money in stocks again. If I make just 300 million won, I think I could come up with the money for the current tenant. From the current tenant’s perspective, not getting the money back is the worst-case scenario, and from a new tenant’s perspective, they’ve paid 300 million won, so there wouldn’t be any problem if they lived in my house, would there?”
He went on to ask for advice: “If the current tenant simply waited until I invested the 300 million won I got from the new tenant in stocks and made 300 million won, wouldn’t that mean no one was harmed? I’m thinking of talking to the current tenant this way. What do you think?”

Netizens who saw the story responded, “If you get 300 million won from a new tenant, you should give it back to the current tenant as soon as you receive it. What kind of crazy talk is that?” “That’s an absurd idea.” “You put the jeonse deposit into it, so what do you mean you absolutely had no intention of investing it? If you’ve lost the deposit and can’t return it, that’s jeonse fraud.” “The current tenant can’t get their deposit back—do you think they’re going to move out?”
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