Park Jeong-ha: "The Bongsan-ri land owned by Kim Geon-hee's family is a place where even detached houses cannot be built"

Park Jeong-ha, People Power Party Lawmaker, SBS Radio Interview
"Designated as a waterfront zone... land that cannot be developed"

The Democratic Party of Korea raised suspicions that if the terminus had been installed in Gangsang-myeon in relation to the controversy over the Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway, First Lady Kim Keon-hee, wife of President Yoon Suk-yeol, would have enjoyed enormous development profits. However, Park Jeong-ha, a member of the People Power Party, rebutted this by saying it is "not true."

On the 27th, Park appeared on SBS Radio's 'Kim Tae-hyun's Political Show' and said, "What opposition party lawmakers are focusing on is the 20 plots of land in Byeongsan-ri (owned by Kim's family)," adding, "That land is designated as a waterfront zone under the Hangang River Basin Act."

He said, "To put it exaggeratedly, it is an area where not even a single detached house can be properly built," and pointed out, "Democratic Party lawmaker Lee So-young claims that there are already apartments nearby and that this can be sufficiently resolved through Yangpyeong County, but that is a misunderstanding."

Won Hee-ryong, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, is responding to questions from lawmakers at the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee plenary session held at the National Assembly on the 26th. Photo by Yonhap News

He continued, "The Hyundai Sungwoo complex currently there was developed after the district unit plan was finalized in 1997," and said, "The Hangang River Basin Act, which designates the area as a waterfront zone where development is completely impossible, was enacted in 1999. Except for military and environmental purposes, no development is allowed on such land."

Regarding the friction with Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong over the submission of materials by the opposition, he said, "The materials requested by Democratic Party lawmakers include, for example, the results of verbal meetings between officials and the processes that occurred in the middle to reach the final conclusion," adding, "All materials that appear in the final conclusion are available, but if you request materials that cannot be verified in the middle or that were never created, it is actually difficult for the Ministry of Land."

He added, "Documents that were not filed due to mistakes by officials may be missing," and said, "To say that the Ministry of Land is hiding something based on the overall conclusion is an excessive leap in logic, in my opinion."

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