Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police Intensify Crackdown on Illegal Activities in Development Restriction Zones
[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province is launching a focused crackdown on illegal activities within the Greenbelt areas.
The Gyeonggi Province Special Judicial Police announced on the 5th that from the 13th to the 30th of this month, they will intensively crack down on illegal activities such as unauthorized construction and illegal changes of use within the Greenbelt areas.
The targets of the crackdown include habitual offenders of illegal activities in the Greenbelt, corporate-type illegal actors operating for profit, and those who fail to comply with correction orders.
The main points include ▲ constructing or installing buildings or structures without permission ▲ illegally changing the use of facilities related to flora and fauna or agricultural and fishery product storage facilities into logistics warehouses, factories, etc. ▲ unauthorized alteration of farmland into parking lots or other uses ▲ unauthorized storage of goods, illegal dumping or landfill of waste.
If buildings are illegally changed in use or the land is altered within the Greenbelt for profit or habitually, penalties of up to three years imprisonment or fines up to 30 million won will be imposed according to the Special Act on the Designation and Management of Greenbelt Areas.
The number of detected illegal activities in the Greenbelt areas in the province over the past three years were 3,629 cases in 2019, 4,000 cases in 2020, and 3,794 cases in 2021.
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Kim Min-kyung, head of the Provincial Civil Special Judicial Police, emphasized, "We will respond strongly in close cooperation with Gyeonggi Province and city and county governments against acts that habitually damage the Greenbelt for private gain," adding, "In particular, we will focus on inspecting blind spots that have not been reached by enforcement for decades to ensure proper management of the Greenbelt areas."
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