The area around Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo-si, which is the scheduled location of Jeju 2nd Airport.
As a result of the suspicion of speculation on the planned site of Gwangmyeong New City by employees of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), it is argued that allegations of speculation on the planned site of Jeju 2nd Airport should also be investigated. It is argued that there is a suspicion of information leakage due to the rapid increase in land transactions before and after the announcement of the location. According to the data released by Jeju Island recently to the Jeju Provincial Council, the land transaction volume in Seongsan-eup in 2015 was 10,330,000,6052m2 of 5884 lots, compared to the previous year (6,594,476m2 of 2835 lots), soaring 108% of lots and 71% of area. The area of Seongsan-eup was confirmed on November 10, 2015 as the scheduled location of Jeju 2nd Airport. On the other hand, the land transaction in Daejeong-eup, which was discussed as a candidate site for the second airport during the same period, only took 27% of the lot and 6% of the area. Aewol-eup-do lot land increased by 17% and area by 18%. In particular, before the announcement of the finalization of the second airport, the transaction area in Seongsan-eup showed a rapid increase. △In June 2015, 413 lots, 65,1588㎡ △July, 507 lots, 84,7960㎡ △August, 306 lots, 44,7437㎡, the transaction area was △September 402 lots, 1,250,000,7582㎡ △October 514 lots, 98,9058 It has increased significantly to ㎡. In particular, the deal area in November, which was confirmed as the planned site, was 213,8230m2 for 1218 parcels, which increased by 4.5 times and area by 3.8 times compared to November of the previous year (55,5876m2 of 269 parcels). The’Jeju 2nd Airport Forced Block Emergency Citizens’ Meeting’ (Emergency Citizens’ Meeting) raised suspicion of speculation due to the leakage of information in advance on the 2nd airport plan on the 9th following the 8th. The emergency citizens’ meeting said, “Before the location of the second airport was announced, the planned site and surrounding land transactions increased sharply. In 2015, the number of land transactions in Seongsan-eup was 6700, of which 64% (the buyers of) were residents of other regions such as Seoul. He requested a full investigation, saying, “It is necessary to investigate whether the information leaks of Jin, etc. in advance, and to investigate the account of the car name and pseudonym, etc.,” he said. In this regard, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport released a press release and explained that “the process of selecting the final candidate for the second airport was conducted fairly, and there was no fact that the location information was not leaked in advance.” On the 9th, the emergency citizens’ meeting made a statement again on the 9th, saying, “The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has not directly investigated the suspicion of information leakage and confirmed whether there was a problem. He urged, “Please ask for an investigation on allegations of information leakage in advance.” By Hur Ho-joon, staff reporter [email protected]