Park Gyuntaek "Will Solve Long-Standing Development Issues and Create a Mine for Future Leap"

Official Declaration of Candidacy for Gwangsan-gu Gap District, Gwangju in Next Year's General Election

Attorney Park Gyuntaek officially announced his candidacy for the Gwangsan-gu Gap district in Gwangju Metropolitan City for next year's National Assembly election.

On the morning of the 13th, after completing his preliminary candidate registration, Attorney Park held a press conference and stated, "I will become a politician who defeats Yoon Seok-yeol and Han Dong-hoon, ends prosecutorial dictatorship, and propels Gwangsan, the future of Gwangju, to leap forward."

He continued, "To put a stop to the ruthless behavior of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, which cruelly and persistently engages in political oppression, the emergence of a politician with strong presence and combat power is urgently needed," adding, "Having a precise understanding of the nature of special prosecutors, I decided to run with a sense of mission to become a politician who stops the reckless prosecution regime."

He also expressed his views on the issues faced by the Gwangsan Gap district, which is a core area of Gwangju but suffers from hindered development due to military facilities, poor transportation environment, disconnected downtown, and deteriorated residential conditions.

He said, "This is due to the absence of a strong and competent politician who properly represents the residents of Gwangsan Gap," and declared, "I will solve the long-standing development tasks and create a Gwangsan that leaps into the future."

Attorney Park also announced five major policy pledges.

▲ Confirm simultaneous relocation of military and civilian airports and resolve the Gwangju military airport relocation issue through special law amendments ▲ Promote the establishment of Gwangju Subway Line 2 Section 4 (Songjeong Station - Seonun District - Sochon-dong - Usan-dong - Wolgok-dong - Hanam Industrial Complex - Suwan-dong) ▲ Eliminate the east-west barrier in Gwangsan by abolishing the Gwangju Station~Songjeong Station railway and undergrounding the Hanam Station~Songjeong Station railway ▲ After closing the Pyeongdong firing range, establish new welfare facilities such as the Gwangju Western Region Senior Health and Welfare Town on approximately 750,000 pyeong of land ▲ Amend the special law on development restriction zones to improve residential welfare and increase rural population inflow.

Meanwhile, Attorney Park was born in Gwangsan, Gwangju, and graduated from Hanam Elementary School, Songjeong Middle School, and Daedong High School before studying law at Seoul National University. He served as a prosecutor for about 25 years and retired as the head of the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 2020 to enable Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae to exercise personnel authority for prosecutorial reform.

In 2022, he returned to his hometown Gwangsan and established the law firm Gwangsan, where he worked as the lead attorney. At the request of the Democratic Party of Korea, he served as vice chairman of the Political Retaliation Investigation Countermeasures Committee and the Prosecutorial Dictatorship Political Oppression Countermeasures Committee. In December 2022, he was appointed as a legal special advisor to Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, and in January of this year, he was appointed as Lee Jae-myung’s defense attorney, playing a significant role in the dismissal of the arrest warrant for Lee in September.

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