Daegu City Councilor Park Chang-seok, "Designation of Entire Gunwi-gun as Land Transaction Permission Zone is Unfair"

Daegu City Council 5-Minute Speech Criticism

"Please Designate Only Development Plan Areas"

Park Chang-seok, a member of the Daegu City Council (People Power Party·Gunwi County), condemned the regulatory tyranny of Daegu City, which designated the entire Gunwi area as a land transaction permission zone, and urged the lifting of the designation in areas without development plans.

In a five-minute speech at the plenary session held on the 19th, Councilor Park stated, “As soon as Gunwi County was incorporated into Daegu City, the first administrative order by Daegu City was to designate the entire Gunwi area as a land transaction permission zone,” adding, “This regulatory tyranny pours cold water on the hopes and expectations of Gunwi residents who became Daegu citizens after overcoming intense local conflicts lasting more than seven years since July 2016 to overcome regional extinction caused by population decline, despite the anticipated severe noise damage from the integrated new airport.”

Daegu City Council Member Park Chang-seok.

In the five-minute speech manuscript released in advance on the 18th, he argued against Daegu City’s reason for designating the permission zone, saying, “Gunwi County borders Daegu City’s Dong-gu district with Palgongsan Mountain in the middle, but it is one of the most difficult and challenging areas among the nine districts and counties of Daegu City, with no directly connected roads.” He added, “As a rural area, most of the land is farmland, and there are already many restrictions on farmland sales due to the 2021 amendment of the Farmland Act. Since the majority of farmers are elderly and face difficulties in farming due to illness and other reasons, many want to sell and organize their farmland, resulting in many land transactions by outsiders.”

He also pointed out, “Ignoring these internal circumstances of Gunwi, simply designating 185 million pyeong of land, which exceeds 40% of Daegu City’s area, as a permission zone all at once due to reasons such as many land transactions by outsiders and high land price appreciation rates, is too unilateral, administratively convenient, and an inappropriate administrative order.”

Councilor Park of Daegu City Council further asserted, “The designation of Gunwi County as a land transaction permission zone should be made within a scope that minimizes residents’ inconvenience so that elderly farmers can smoothly trade farmland according to specific development plans, and the rest should be lifted as soon as possible.”

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