Sacheon Mayor Park Dongsik Requests Early Enactment Cooperation for the 'Special Act on Aerospace Complex City Construction'

Emphasizing a Core Task for the Nation's Future
Calling for Full Support from the National Assembly

Park Dong-sik, Mayor of Sacheon City, Gyeongnam, visited the National Assembly again on the 18th and 19th to earnestly request full support from the National Assembly for the early enactment of the "Special Act on the Construction of Aerospace Complex City."

In particular, this visit to the National Assembly is significant as it involved broad activities encompassing both ruling and opposition parties.

Mayor Park Dong-sik is meeting with Assemblyman Seo Beom-su to request cooperation for the early enactment of the "Special Act on the Construction of Aerospace Complex City."

To urge the prompt enactment of the special act, Mayor Park showed an extensive schedule starting from the first day of his visit on the 18th. He began with a meeting with Kwon Young-jin, Chair of the Subcommittee on Land Bills and the ruling party's secretary of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee (Daegu Dalseo-gu B), followed by meetings with Maeng Sung-kyu, Chair of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee (Incheon Namdong-gu Gap), Seo Cheon-ho, who is the main proposer of the special act (Gyeongnam Sacheon·Namhae·Hadong), Lee Dal-hee of the Public Administration and Security Committee (Proportional Representation), Jo Eun-hee, ruling party secretary of the Public Administration and Security Committee (Seoul Seocho-gu Gap), and Kim Jong-yang of the Public Administration and Security Committee (Changwon-si Uichang-gu), consecutively proposing the early enactment of the special act.

On the 19th, he met with Yoon Jae-ok, a member of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee (Daegu Dalseo-gu Eul), Moon Jin-seok, opposition party secretary of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee (Chungnam Cheonan-si Gap), and Seo Beom-su, a member of the Land Bills Subcommittee (Ulsan Ulju-gun), to discuss specific measures for the early enactment of the special act.

Mayor Park explained in detail the construction plans and progress of the Aerospace Complex City to each lawmaker, emphasizing that the development of the Aerospace Complex City is a core project to strengthen the competitiveness of the national aerospace industry beyond Sacheon City.

He earnestly requested that, regardless of party lines, legal and institutional support at the National Assembly level is necessary for this important project for the nation's future. Maeng Sung-kyu, Chair of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, along with other lawmakers, expressed their commitment, stating, "We will pay attention and make efforts for the passage of the special act."

The Aerospace Complex City is a self-sufficient city combining administrative town, industrial complex, residential district, commercial and tourism facilities centered on the aerospace industry. It is being developed near the Aerospace Administration Office to maximize synergy effects through the clustering of administrative, industrial, and residential facilities, aiming to secure international competitiveness.

While Sacheon City is making various efforts for the passage of the bill, the special bills proposed by Seo Cheon-ho (Sacheon·Namhae·Hadong) and Park Dae-chul (Jinju-si Gap) in May and June of last year, respectively, were referred to the jurisdiction of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee on August 21 of last year.

Sacheon City holds the position that to develop the Aerospace Complex City into Asia's Toulouse?a world-class industry-academia-research cluster and residential environment centered on the Aerospace Administration Office?it is essential to enact a special act that includes the formation of a government-affiliated promotion team, establishment of a special account, and exemption from preliminary feasibility studies. Furthermore, the city plans to continuously visit the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the National Assembly to explain the necessity of the special act and actively request cooperation.

Mayor Park stated, "The construction of the Aerospace Complex City is a core project to strengthen the competitiveness of the national aerospace industry beyond Sacheon City," and added, "I earnestly request the government and the National Assembly to cooperate so that this bill can be promptly advanced."

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