Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police Conduct Intensive Crackdown on Illegal Activities in Development Restriction Zones

Poster for Intensive Crackdown on Illegal Activities in Development-Restricted Areas by Gyeonggi-do Special Judicial Police Unit

Gyeonggi Province is launching a focused crackdown on illegal activities in the development-restricted areas within the province.

The Gyeonggi Province Special Judicial Police announced on the 11th that from the 18th of this month until the 6th of next month, they will intensively crack down on illegal activities such as unauthorized construction, illegal land alteration, and illegal change of use within the development-restricted areas.

The Provincial Public Safety Special Judicial Police will particularly focus inspections on habitual offenders of illegal activities in all development-restricted areas within the province, corporate-type offenders conducting illegal activities for profit, and those who fail to comply with correction orders.

The main targets of the crackdown 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 or forest land by changing its shape into parking lots, etc. ▲ unauthorized storage of goods, illegal tree cutting, and logging.

If buildings are illegally changed in use or the land is altered habitually or for profit within the development-restricted areas, penalties of up to three years imprisonment or fines up to 30 million KRW will be imposed according to the Special Act on the Designation and Management of Development-Restricted Areas.

Hong Eun-gi, head of the Provincial Public Safety Special Judicial Police, stated, "Through the crackdown on illegal activities in development-restricted areas, we will do our best to eradicate habitual damage to these areas for private gain and secure a healthy living environment for the residents."

Meanwhile, the number of cases detected due to illegal activities in development-restricted areas within the province over the past three years were 3,999 in 2020, 3,794 in 2021, and 5,013 in 2022.

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