Mayor Lee Yong-seop Urges Action on Dalbit Inland Railroad and Military Airport Relocation Projects

Proposal of Current Issues to the New Leadership of the Deobureo Minjudang

On the morning of the 7th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, attended the on-site Supreme Council meeting held at the Democratic Party of Korea Gwangju City Party Office in Seo-gu and delivered a greeting. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] On the morning of the 7th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, attended the on-site Supreme Council meeting held at the Democratic Party of Korea Gwangju City Party and requested the new party leadership to newly include the Gwangju-Daegu Dalbit Inland Railway in the 4th National Railroad Network Construction Plan and to promote the military airport relocation project.

At the Supreme Council meeting that day, Representative Song Young-gil, Floor Leader Yoon Ho-jung, Supreme Council Members Kim Yong-min, Kang Byung-won, Baek Hye-ryun, Kim Young-bae, Jeon Hye-sook, local members of the National Assembly, and Mayor Lee Yong-seop attended.

Mayor Lee emphasized, “The Gwangju-Daegu Dalbit Inland Railway is a representative pledge of cooperation between Yeongnam and Honam by President Moon Jae-in, symbolizing east-west harmony, national integration, and balanced national development.”

He also pointed out, “When establishing the 4th National Railroad Network Construction Plan (2021?2030), the vision was announced to connect major national hubs within two hours by rail, but without the construction of the Dalbit Inland Railway, realizing this vision is far from achievable.”

In particular, he stressed, “The construction of the Gwangju-Daegu Dalbit Inland Railway is not a complaint from a specific region but a national core railroad infrastructure crossing the east-west axis of the country, passing through six metropolitan local governments. It will overcome the capital-centered economic structure and contribute to balanced national development through revitalizing the ‘Southern Metropolitan Economic Zone.’”

The mayor also requested the Democratic Party of Korea to actively engage in the Gwangju military airport relocation project.

Mayor Lee said, “The military airport is a nationally important defense facility, and due to the nature of the project requiring enormous resources and support, it is difficult to resolve by leaving it solely to local governments. I request active interest and support at the party level, such as revising the Military Airport Special Act, so that the relocation candidate site can be decided within this year.”

He added, “Please pay attention at the party level so that groundbreaking support measures for the relocation area can be created in the pan-government consultative body led by the Prime Minister’s Office. To increase acceptance among residents of the relocation area, in addition to the donation and transfer difference (450 billion KRW), direct national projects or national treasury subsidy projects such as expanding metropolitan transportation networks, relocating public institutions, and creating aviation-specialized industrial complexes funded by national finances are urgently needed.”

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