On the day of the inauguration of President Yoon Seok-yeol, Jeju Island resolved to urge the plan for the second airport to be scrapped.

On the day of the inauguration ceremony of the 20th President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, voices calling for the second airport to be wiped out are intensifying once more in Jeju.

The ‘Jeju 2nd Airport Enforcement Prevention Emergency Citizen’s Meeting’ announced on the 9th that it will hold a provincial resolution meeting to urge the 2nd airport to be cleared in front of the civil affairs office of Jeju City Hall from 7 pm on the 10th.

President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol’s term of office begins on the 10th when he was a presidential candidate, and he made ‘early start of construction of the second airport’ as one of Jeju’s eight promises.

In line with the inauguration ceremony of the elected Yoon Seok-yeol, the provincial council plans to hold a provincial resolution meeting and demand the government to blank out the second airport.

Hwang Tae-jong, chair of the Jeju Diocese of Catholic Church Ecology and Environment, who is chairing the Jeju Unification Youth Association Chairman Kim Hee-jung and serving as the permanent representative of the provincial community, will deliver the grand address.

In addition, Kangwonbo, executive chairman of the Jeju Second Airport Seongsan-eup Countermeasures Committee, and Lee Sang-young, director of Seonheul 2-ri, Jocheon-eup, Jeju-si, who have experienced conflicts for and once morest Jeju Animal Theme Park, will speak condemning the policy of constructing the second airport.

On this day, at the provincial resolution conference, a performance to make letters once morest the second airport with candles was also scheduled.

Meanwhile, the conflict at the second airport began in November 2015 when the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced the construction plan for the second airport in the Seongsan area. As various conflicts over pros and cons arose for more than five years, according to party-government consultations, Jeju-do and the Jeju Provincial Assembly conducted a public opinion poll.

As a result of the public opinion poll, the residents chose to ‘oppose’ the promotion of the second airport, but at the time, Jeju Provincial Governor Won Hee-ryong reversed the opinions of the residents and declared the promotion of the second airport as normal.

In particular, the Ministry of Environment finally rejected the environmental factors such as the Sumgol problem and the migratory bird problem within the project site to the 2nd Airport Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment Report submitted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in July last year.

In such a situation, the inauguration of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, who advocated the speedy promotion of the second airport, was scheduled to take office. This atmosphere is getting deeper.

Preliminary candidate Heo Hyang-jin, who was selected as the candidate for the people’s strength Jeju governor in the 8th nationwide local elections scheduled for June 1, is also making a pledge to promote the second airport as soon as possible in line with the new government’s keynote, Yoon Seok-yeol.

lately [제주의소리] In a poll conducted (April 30 – May 1, 2022) of 1,000 residents (weighted values ​​applied) by four media companies, including 48.8% were once morest and 44.9% in favor.