Minister Byeon Chang-heum in attendance at the National Land Commission▶ Click here for a larger view
It was confirmed on the 24th that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the main department of the’Gadeokdo New Airport’ project, submitted a report to members of the National Assembly’s National Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee earlier this month, stating that the budget for the construction of the new airport reached 28 trillion won.
The report in the form of a book titled’Report on Gadeok Airport by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’ included an estimate that the project cost of Gadeok Island’s new airport reached 28 trillion KRW, not the 7.5 trillion KRW originally claimed by Busan City.
Busan Xi’an is a plan to open only international flights and use Gimhae Airport for domestic flights, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport pointed out that this is less realistic.
In a report, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “Airports such as Tokyo and Montreal, where only international flights were relocated to the outskirts of the city center, failed to operate, and eventually switched to integrated operation. If the transfer system is poor, the status as a gateway airport will decline.”
In addition, in order to create the’Southeastern gateway airport’, which the Democratic Party claims, military facilities and domestic facilities must also be constructed, and in this case, the project cost will increase significantly.
In the meantime, while addressing the’legal obligations of public officials’, he said, “It may correspond to not opposing the Gaduk New Airport Special Act in the context of being aware of the problem in the procedure.”
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (CG)▶ Click here for a larger view
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a review report submitted to the Subcommittee on the Special Act on Gadeok Island on the 19th, “It is common for airports to enact special laws after determining their location after reviewing possible alternatives.”
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