Kim Jong-in, head of the National Forces Emergency Response Committee, visited Busan on the 1st and said, “I actively support the construction of the new airport on Gadeok Island. Ahead of the 4/7 Busan mayor’s by-election, the Democratic Party announced that it would fully support Busan, and the leadership of the people was also eager to read the Busan public sentiment.
People’s Strength Kim Jong-in, chairman of the Emergency Response Committee, is locked in thought at the on-site emergency response committee held at the People’s Strength Busan City Hall in Suyeong-gu, Busan on the morning of the 1st. yunhap news
The leadership of the people’s strength visited the city hall of Busan this morning and held a meeting of the on-site non-capital. Chairman Kim announced the’New Busan Vision Project’, which contains Busan’s vision for economic growth. In particular, regarding the construction of a new airport on Gadeokdo Island, where passports are spurring, he said, “The power of the people will actively support the construction of the new airport on Gadeokdo Island, and will endeavor to ensure that the Special Act on Construction of the Gadeokdo Island New Airport is handled under the agreement of the opposition parties.” “Airport construction will bring enormous employment effects and economic ripple effects,” he said. “We will actively support the construction of a new airport in connection with the hosting of the World Expo, which will serve as a momentum for Busan to take off again,” he said.
In addition to the new airport, it has announced that it will build a Korean-Japanese submarine tunnel and promote the Busan Special Economic and Financial Zone Special Act. Chairman Kim said, “We will also actively review the construction of a submarine tunnel between Korea and Japan that connects Gadeok in Busan and Kyushu, Japan.” He added, “With a much smaller fiscal burden compared to Japan, there is an enormous economic effect of 54 trillion won in production and 450,000 in employment effects. It is a business that is expected to work.
Chairman Kim’s remarks can be interpreted as a paving stone for the recent fluctuating Busan region’s approval rating. In some recent polls, it was found that the approval rating of the people’s power in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam was inferior to that of the Democratic Party. Then, there was anxiety within the party that “it will be overturned in Busan”.
In particular, there were cases in which the party race runners rebelled against the new airport, which is Busan’s long-awaited project, when the representative of the Daegu-area district Ho-young Joo objected that it was a “quick promotion without environmental impact assessment”. For example, a preliminary candidate Lee Eon-ju held an emergency press conference at the National Assembly on the 28th of last month and declared, “If the special law on the new airport of Gaduk Island is not handled against the party’s opposition, we will resign”.
Although lawmakers in Daegu and Gyeongbuk in the party are protesting, the people’s strength is to speed up the construction of a new airport in Gadeok Island. To this end, a public hearing will be held before the Lunar New Year holidays so that the Special Law on Construction of New Airports in Gadeok Island can be handled early. Leaders, including Chairman Kim, visited the Gadeok Island Counter Observatory immediately after the non-capture meeting and inspected the site.
Along with this, the power of the people was aimed at the remarks of Park Jae-ho, chairman of the Democratic Party’s Busan City Party, saying, “(Because Busan citizens watch a lot of conservative media), it is pathetic.” Seong Il-jong, an escort committee member, said, “Are Busan citizens who are worried about the country pathetic? “Where is this insult?” and raised his voice, “Which force has ruined this country?” When referring to the sexual harassment case of former Busan Mayor Oh Geo-don and the charges of corruption by former Busan Vice Mayor Yoo Jae-soo, he said, “The Democratic Party’s forces have hurt the great citizens of Busan.”
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