"Gwacheon Citizens' Only Breathing Space" Gwacheon City Opposes Housing Supply Plan (Update)

Gwacheon-si "Must Establish Core AI and Bio Cluster for Korean New Deal"

Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance (center), Kim Hyun-mi, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (left), and Seo Jung-hyup, Acting Mayor of Seoul, are answering reporters' questions at the joint briefing on the "Measures to Expand Housing Supply in the Seoul Metropolitan Area and Surrounding Areas" held at the Government Seoul Office Building on the 4th. / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Ju-hyung] The government announced on the 4th that it will develop the idle land near the Government Gwacheon Complex into a residential complex as part of the housing supply plan for the Seoul metropolitan area, but Gwacheon City has opposed the plan.

On the same day, Deputy Prime Minister for Economy Hong Nam-ki announced the 'Housing Supply Plan for the Seoul Metropolitan Area, etc.' at a joint briefing held at the Government Seoul Office, which includes △ the introduction of a public reconstruction system △ the discovery and expansion of new sites such as Taereung Golf Course in Nowon-gu, Seoul, and the additional supply of a total of 122,000 housing units in the metropolitan area.

In addition to Taereung Golf Course, the plan is to build 4,000 apartment units on idle land around the Government Gwacheon Complex to supply to young people and newlyweds.

However, Gwacheon City, which had been planning to create a high-tech industrial complex on the idle land, immediately opposed this plan.

Mayor Kim Jong-cheon of Gwacheon City said at an emergency briefing, "Supplying 4,000 large-scale apartment units on the idle land of the complex, the only space where Gwacheon citizens can breathe, is an unbearable burden for the citizens and the city," and "We strongly demand the exclusion of the Government Gwacheon Complex and its idle land from the government's housing supply plan."

This idle land is government-owned and spans 89,000㎡. It is currently used as a park, sports ground, and parking lot for citizens.

Mayor Kim pointed out, "The idea of supplying housing on the idle land of the Government Gwacheon Complex is to use Gwacheon merely as a means of housing supply to curb housing prices in Gangnam."

He also insisted, "The site should be developed into an AI and bio cluster, which is a core part of the Korean New Deal policy."

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