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Democratic mayoral candidates for the Mayor of Seoul confronted the real estate policy, a key pledge in the first TV debate last night (15th).

Candidate Young-sun Park pledged to build a compact city that solves all life such as commuting and shopping within 21 minutes, while Candidate Sang-ho Woo made a pledge to build large-scale public housing on arterial roads or railroads. .



[Park Young-sun/Democratic Mayor of Seoul Candidate: I have a feeling like this, Seoul, which is a bit choking when I imagine this pledge.]



[Sang-ho Woo/Democratic Mayor of Seoul Candidate: Will this be a great transformation of Seoul or a great chaos?" I have a lot of worries.]



Then, we checked whether the promises of these two candidates are truly realistic.



Reporter Jeong-Hyun Jeong and Reporter Se-Hyun Han covered the report.



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The '21 Minute City' of Candidate Park Young-seon is to divide Seoul into 21 districts with a population of 500,000 each, and build an infrastructure that solves the entire life within 21 minutes of traffic.



After a part of the road in Yeouido is underground on a pilot basis, a park, a smart farm, and a one-person household tel will be built on it.



[Park Young-seon/Democratic Mayor of Seoul Candidate: Even if I don't have to go to Gangnam, if I'm comfortable where I live, the problem of real estate will be quite solved.]



However, it is argued that it is inefficient to establish infrastructure for each

district

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[Ma Gang-rae / Professor of Urban Planning and Real Estate Department at Chung-Ang University: An overwhelming majority of promising startups are located in Gangnam.

This is because (industry) grows through the benefits of accumulation.] Whether it is



organically connected to the government or Seoul's existing development plans is also a key issue.



For example, wide-area transportation networks such as GTX are only covered in some areas, and there are regional variations, some point out that it contradicts Park's pledge.



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<Reporter Han Se-hyun>



Candidate Sang-ho Woo's representative pledge is'Apartment on the Road'.



The example is Gangbyeonbuk-ro, saying that it will supply 160,000 public housing units on urban roads or railroad tracks.



It means to build a townhouse or a high-rise apartment over a 20km section that does not damage the view.



[Sang-ho Woo/Democratic Mayor of Seoul Candidate: I brought a panel, but there are many buildings on this riverside road in Manhattan, New York.]



Land purchase costs will be reduced, but there are concerns that construction costs will increase.



[Lee Chang-moo/Hanyang University Professor of Urban Engineering: Large-scale construction is required to build a support even under the road, so it is not a cost-effective option.]



There are also some pointed out that there are many low-rise houses around the Gangbyeonbuk-ro, so there is a high concern about infringement of the view right. .



The two candidates are in the position to pay the pledged household account book in the future, so the size of the budget should also be considered.



SBS will review the pledges of other major contest candidates after the confrontation debate on the 18th and 23rd.



(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, video editing: Choi Hye-young)