5,119 Residents Near Yecheon Air Force Base to Receive Noise Damage Compensation Up to 720,000 KRW

Gyeongbuk Yecheon-gun (Governor Kim Hak-dong) held the 1st Yecheon-gun Regional Noise Countermeasure Committee meeting this year and decided on the recipients and amounts of compensation payments for residents affected by noise around the Air Force airfield.

A total of 5,175 residents from Yucheon, Yonggung, and Gaepo-myeon areas of Yecheon-gun applied for damage compensation payments, of which 5,119 were approved as recipients and 56 were excluded from payment.

Last February, Yecheon-gun township office employees visited senior centers to receive noise damage compensation applications from residents.

The compensation recipients are residents who were registered in the noise countermeasure area designated and announced in 2021 and who resided there during the compensation period.

Accordingly, those who did not reside in the noise countermeasure area, whose workplace was located more than 100 km outside the noise countermeasure area, or who did not actually reside due to active military service were excluded from payment.

The total compensation amount decided this time is approximately 1.88 billion KRW, and after the review is completed, objections will be accepted until July 23, with compensation payments scheduled to be made to residents without objections by the end of August.

A Yecheon-gun official stated, “The compensation amount is determined comprehensively considering the distance between the military airfield and residential areas, noise measurement values, etc. The maximum payment per person is 720,000 KRW. Damage compensation payments have been made annually since they were first paid last year upon application.”

Kim Dong-tae, head of the County Environmental Management Division, said, “We will smoothly complete the compensation payment procedures for airfield damage, and those who have objections to the decision can fairly receive compensation through the objection procedure. We will do our best to ensure this.”

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