I am interviewing with Governor Won emphasized that, in relation to the second airport, where opposition was higher in the Jeju citizens’ opinion poll, “the opposition is high, so trying to break it down is misleading the facts.” Jeju/Cheol-gyu Jang, senior reporter [email protected]” alt=”Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong at the office of the Jeju Provincial Office on the afternoon of the 18th <한겨레>I am interviewing with Governor Won emphasized that, in relation to the second airport, where opposition was higher in the Jeju citizens’ opinion poll, “the opposition is high, so trying to break it down is misleading the facts.” Jeju/Cheol-gyu Jang, Senior Reporter [email protected]” />
Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong is interviewing with the office of the Jeju Provincial Office on the afternoon of the 18th. Governor Won emphasized that, in relation to the second airport, where opposition was higher in the Jeju citizens’ opinion poll, “the opposition is high, so trying to break it down is misleading the facts.” Jeju/Cheol-gyu Jang, senior reporter [email protected]
It seemed to me that I was very angry. I felt that Jeju Airport 2, a national project, was being used politically beyond being neglected by the government. While emphasizing that “the second airport is the core of Jeju’s jobs and future industrial development strategy,” he repeatedly said that the president and the state hesitating to pursue such a plan “cannot be recognized”. This is the story of Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong, who is urging the second airport to be promoted even though opposition was ahead of the opinion polls of Jeju citizens who decided to “reflect in policy decisions” through party-government consultation. On the afternoon of the 18th, I met Governor Won at the office of the Jeju Provincial Office and asked about the background of the decision and future plans. ―Jeju’s second airport should not be destroyed, and he is pressing on President Moon Jae-in through interviews with Facebook. It seems that they are making policy issues a political issue. “Even if only Gadeokdo did not do that, the president would have said,’You have a lot of troubles.’ There is no picture (specific plan), and there is no procedure for the plan that was the last in all previous evaluations, an airport less than 20 km from Gimhae Airport, where a plane flies over a flock of migratory birds in Eulsukdo Island by filling the sea in a pen that continues to sink. As soon as the minister was publicly instructed to step on and actively pursue, the second airport was no longer a policy issue. Even though the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and officials continued to oppose it, if it was the decision to pull Gadeok to promote the airport, why don’t you judge the second airport with all plans and budgets? Since one side demands the airport from there (Busan) and opposes it, it is shaken by the logic and double standards of my side rather than responsibility for the state and plans for the future. It’s really less than I thought (shaking my head).” ―On the 17th, at the provincial council’s agenda questionnaire, “If there is an alternative to the second airport, the President must destroy (promote that alternative) and promise. Is it in this context that the president said, “Choose what he said,” whether to kill or save (the second airport)? “If even a tenth of Gadeokdo is interested, President Moon should have come to Seongsan. Gadeokdo went ahead even though the opposition party argued why he was going ahead of the election. Even though the early opening of the 2nd airport is a pledge of the presidential election (precisely, it is support for early opening of the port under the premise of securing procedural transparency of project promotion and preparing a win-win plan with local residents). (Jeju-do local recruitment) Democratic Party lawmakers debated with opposing groups and forced the results of the party-political negotiations that were missing from Jeju-do to conduct public opinion polls. If the President said,’Why are you fighting this way? The government will help you with the environmental issues (pointed out by the opposing side of the 2nd airport)’, public opinion will not go so much, and there will be no need to fight with the citizens. Rather, it could be used as a force for balanced Jeju development and environmental investment. However, despite the Minister’s objection, the President directly pressed Gadeokdo Island, and the 2nd Airport said that if the ruling party did not agree with the opposing group, he couldn’t take a step in all four years of the government and took time. This is not a country. This attitude cannot be admitted from the standpoint of worrying about the people who live in this land and the home of the children who will live in the future. The responsibility and judgment as the highest decision-maker in the state administration was handed over to the citizens of the province. So, don’t put up a fight among the citizens, and the president should judge. There are two alternatives to bringing down the second airport. How to deal with safety issues, how to create jobs in Jeju and strategies for future industrial development. In particular, if the government of jobs was self-proclaimed, and the airport with only 50,000 direct jobs related to it was destroyed, what would be the alternative? Given an alternative, we cannot make a relative choice, such as sub-optimal, if it is not the best, even if we oppose it. If there is no alternative, there will be pros and cons between citizens, so if I say I don’t know, why is there a president and a country? Such a president and state cannot be admitted.” ―At a press conference unveiling the intention of promoting the 2nd airport, he said, “Why did the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport again ask Jeju Island’s position in such a sensitive period?” What do you mean? “The reason I did a poll was that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Democratic Party, and the Jeju Provincial Council would not proceed with the second airport if this procedure was not passed. Instead, this poll doesn’t decide whether to promote it or not. If there is a lot of approval, as many as there are, and if there are many oppositions, it is to compensate in the direction of reducing conflict, and the result was delivered to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport without reflecting our (Jeju-do) subjectivity. Then, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has to make a judgment, and on the 10th, he replied by saying,’Please give me your opinion on how the governor of Jeju will interpret this project and how to do this project in the future.’ At this point, I asked the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport why they are flying such a’paper plane’, but there was no explanation. I was worried that it would be abused in the way that’Jeju-do’s willingness to promote is weak, so the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will abstain’. That’s why I said firmly,’Don’t you know what I’m thinking?’ Instead, in the polls, residents of Seongsan area showed high approval, and opposition from the area where the second airport is far away or where the airport is currently connected to the commercial area was a bit high. Women in their 20s and 30s have slightly higher opposition due to environmental issues. It was a result of reflecting economic benefits and convenience in life, so I replied that things to be supplemented should be supplemented.”
I am interviewing with Jeju/Cheol-gyu Jang, senior reporter [email protected]” alt=”Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong at the office of the Jeju Provincial Office on the afternoon of the 18th <한겨레>I am interviewing with Jeju/Cheol-gyu Jang, Senior Reporter [email protected]” />
Jeju Governor Won Hee-ryong is interviewing with the office of the Jeju Provincial Office on the afternoon of the 18th. Jeju/Cheol-gyu Jang, senior reporter [email protected]
―There was a high opposition to the entire metropolitan public opinion poll. Why do you not mention this result, but only talk in favor of the Seongsan region and differences in regional opinions? “I tried not to mention sharing the citizens of the city that some regions opposed and agreed. However, since the opposition is high, trying to destroy (the second airport) is misleading the facts. Even the Gallup Korea survey is within the margin of error, so it cannot be said that there are many statistically. In another survey (Mbrain Public), the sample itself was found to have a higher support base of the current government than the Gallup Korea. According to opinion poll experts, women in their twenties and thirties were only slightly opposed to the Gallup Korea survey, but they were caught 10 percentage points higher in the other polls, and young men were in favor of favor in one poll, but the opposite dominance in the other. . It can be interpreted that the opposition from the supporters of the regime is high, but it cannot be interpreted that the opposition of the entire metropolitan population prevails. Even so, when the provincial assembly kept asking why he wasn’t talking, he explained it.” (In this regard, the survey was passively conducted, such as near 9% of the Gallup Korea survey showing unknown or non-response by the organizations opposing the 2nd airport, which did not fit the purpose of this poll, which decided to ask only the pros and cons, and the 20s and 30s and the western part of Jeju In response to the Governor’s remark that there is no problem with residents’ acceptance because the percentage of votes in the Seongsan area is high, the villagers who are incorporated into the airport site said, ‘Responsibility of the victims directly. ‘This is important’. “There are five villages that enter the airport directly, but the place that enters the runway is highly favored. Since the land is accepted, there will be enough rewards and alternatives. On the opposite side, there are three places that suffer damage such as noise as the land is not well received. The area surrounding the airport will be expected to benefit from regional development. Even in the same Seongsan, it is natural that opinions differ depending on the relationship between the airport and one’s living quarters. Since it is a sacrifice for the whole of Jeju in the affected areas, we will provide community compensation and sufficient support measures.” ―On the other side of the second airport, they argue that it is possible to expand the current airport. “I have been misleading public opinion while talking about it for five years. If I go to the airport now, I do it. Why would I make it somewhere else? At first, 33 candidates were selected, and the current airport was expanded, the one going to the west end, and the one going to the east. The only thing we asked for was that it shouldn’t damage the uphill or the environment. On this premise, Seongsan became the overwhelming number one by evaluating the safety and aviation aspects comprehensively. The current airport is in the middle of the city, so it cannot be accommodated if there is more traffic than it is now. (East-West) The runway can only be used 35 times per hour. Opposition groups say that the existing runways between the two Koreas need to be extended a little, but to do so, the sea must be filled. In addition, the two runways cross (east-west and north-south), so it is not possible to use both runways at the same time in places where the wind blows a lot like Jeju and the wind direction changes according to the season. It doesn’t mean that you can write 60 times an hour just by doing so, as the opposition group argues. That’s an issue that came to a conclusion when I reviewed the business feasibility six years ago.” -Didn’t the Paris Airport Authority Engineering (ADPi), which was in charge of the research service at the time, say that the current airport expansion is possible? “ADPI was the main service provider when reviewing Gimhae Airport, and the domestic service team was the main in Jeju. However, when doing a national project, I had to do international services, so I entrusted ADPIE with an affiliated service worth 100 million won. There, they inquired about how to maximize the capacity of the current Jeju Airport, and as a result, they brought 19 theoretically possible improvements. Among them, 15 things that can be done are reflected in the current airport operation as a short-term countermeasure. The main responsibility service team concluded that the four proposals, such as the extension of the runway between the two Koreas and the significant expansion of the apron are inadequate considering future aviation demand and reality.” (The opposing group is requesting the release of a review report that concluded’nonconformity’.) ―It means that the construction of the second airport is because the airport is currently saturated. Currently, there are problems with garbage, transportation, and domestic sewage in Jeju. Considering this, it is pointed out that it is not possible to increase tourists forever. It is interpreted that such concerns are contained in public opinion against the citizens. Why are you trying to promote the second airport? “The problem is the quality of tourism. The busiest route in the world is from Gimpo to Jeju. Because of frequent cancellations when the wind blows, the choice and stability of the schedule to leave when you want to leave is inferior to other competing tourist destinations. Building one more airport does not double the number of tourists, but it is an experiential type so that the airport can be operated only at good times while reducing the number of passengers a little, as the airport is currently in the midst of a year with nearly 30 million passengers a year, and private light aircraft can also be opened. Let’s go to the cultural and high-end. Since the weather in Seogwipo and Jeju is often different, the intention is to widen and stabilize the choice of airplanes in preparation for volatility. It is believed that going to Jeju, which is of high quality, satisfactory, and attractive, is more competitive in the long term and that there are many good jobs. Can travel agencies buy tickets at once, block sale, and charter charters late at night and pour out the crowds of high-class tourists? It seems like Jeju Island is breaking up right now, but if there is no job, everyone goes back.” ―The two runways cannot be used at the same time where the second airport is used as a springboard to challenge the third or presidential election of the Jeju branch next year. It doesn’t mean that you can write 60 times an hour just by doing so, as the opposition group argues. That’s an issue that came to a conclusion when I reviewed the business feasibility six years ago.” -Didn’t the Paris Airport Authority Engineering (ADPi), which was in charge of the research service at the time, say that the current airport expansion is possible? “ADPI was the main service provider when reviewing Gimhae Airport, and the domestic service team was the main in Jeju. However, when doing a national project, I had to do international services, so I entrusted ADPIE with an affiliated service worth 100 million won. There, they inquired about how to maximize the capacity of the current Jeju Airport, and as a result, they brought 19 theoretically possible improvements. Among them, 15 things that can be done are reflected in the current airport operation as a short-term countermeasure. The main responsibility service team concluded that the four proposals, such as the extension of the runway between the two Koreas and the significant expansion of the apron are inadequate considering future aviation demand and reality.” (The opposing group is requesting the release of a review report that concluded’nonconformity’.) ―It means that the construction of the second airport is because the airport is currently saturated. Currently, there are problems with garbage, transportation, and domestic sewage in Jeju. Considering this, it is pointed out that it is not possible to increase tourists forever. It is interpreted that such concerns are contained in public opinion against the citizens. Why are you trying to promote the second airport? “The problem is the quality of tourism. The busiest route in the world is from Gimpo to Jeju. Because of frequent cancellations when the wind blows, the choice and stability of the schedule to leave when you want to leave is inferior to other competing tourist destinations. Building one more airport does not double the number of tourists, but it is an experiential type so that the airport can be operated only at good times while reducing the number of passengers a little, as the airport is currently in the midst of a year with nearly 30 million passengers a year, and private light aircraft can also be opened. Let’s go to the cultural and high-end. Since the weather in Seogwipo and Jeju is often different, the intention is to widen and stabilize the choice of airplanes in preparation for volatility. It is believed that going to Jeju, which is of high quality, satisfactory, and attractive, is more competitive in the long term and that there are many good jobs. Can travel agencies buy tickets at once, block sale, and charter charters late at night and pour out the crowds of high-class tourists? It seems like Jeju Island is breaking up right now, but if there is no job, everyone goes back.” -Are you trying to challenge the 3rd or presidential election of the Jeju branch next year, using the 2nd airport as a foothold? “When I ran for the first time in 2014, the second airport was a pledge, and if Hee-ryong Won, there was an expectation that the central government would bring the airport. After that, he was elected because he asked for me to go ahead with the airport. Presidential election? The order is not to become president, but to ask whether the president of the Republic of Korea will keep his promises in 2017.” By Jeju/Jo Hye-jeong, staff reporter [email protected]