Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Resumes Consultation on Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment for Jeju Second Airport
Supplementary Submission of Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment Report to the Ministry of Environment
[Asia Economy Reporter Minyoung Kim] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it has supplemented the main text of the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA) for Jeju Second Airport, which was rejected by the Ministry of Environment in July 2021, and submitted it to the Ministry of Environment on the 5th.
The Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment is a procedure based on the "Environmental Impact Assessment Act" that reviews the appropriateness of plans and site feasibility from an environmental perspective when establishing development projects. Accordingly, in the case of airport construction projects such as Jeju Second Airport, a SEIA must be prepared at the basic planning stage and go through a consultation process with the Minister of Environment.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport submitted a draft assessment report in June 2019, reflected the Ministry of Environment’s review comments, and submitted the main text in September of the same year. It also submitted supplementary and re-supplementary reports in December 2019 and June 2021, respectively. However, the Ministry of Environment returned the report in July 2021, citing omissions of important matters necessary for consultation and inadequacies in the supplementary content.
In response, since December 2021, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has initiated the "Study on the Possibility of Supplementing the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment for Jeju Second Airport" to examine the possibility of supplementing the reasons for rejection and conducted additional detailed field investigations.
The Ministry plans to implement follow-up measures according to the results of the Ministry of Environment’s notification of consultation opinions on the SEIA. Furthermore, during the future SEIA consultation process, the Ministry intends to sufficiently share information such as the progress of consultations with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province as needed.
Additionally, if the consultation with the Ministry of Environment is completed, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to fully disclose the basic plan (draft) for Jeju Second Airport reflecting the SEIA contents and officially collect opinions from Jeju Special Self-Governing Province on the basic plan (draft) in accordance with relevant laws.
Currently, the existing Jeju Airport has been pointed out as saturated, having already operated beyond runway capacity in 2019. Combined with poor weather conditions, there is a constant risk of aircraft safety accidents, and habitual delays in aircraft departures and arrivals, as well as congestion on runways and terminals, are causing inconvenience to the public.
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The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has judged that the construction of Jeju Second Airport is necessary to resolve these safety concerns and public inconveniences at Jeju Airport, and has been promoting the project since announcing the site for the second airport in the Seongsan-eup area in November 2015.
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