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Yesterday (25th) President Moon Jae-in visited Gadeokdo Island in Busan to express his support for the construction of a new airport, and the new airport special law on Gadeokdo Island will be voted at the National Assembly plenary session today, three months after the initiative.



Reporter Han Se-Hyun delivers.



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Gadeokdo New Airport Special Act is presented at the plenary session of the National Assembly today.



It has been three months since it was initiated last November.



The new airport special bill on Gadeok Island reached the threshold of the Legislative Judicial Committee of the National Assembly yesterday.



[Yun Ho-jung/Chairman of the National Assembly Legislative Judiciary Committee: I declare that it has been passed.] As the



ruling and opposition parties have crossed the threshold of the National Territory Committee and the Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly, the prospect that today's plenary session will pass without difficulty is prevailing.



In order to expedite the project, the preliminary feasibility study can be exempted and the preliminary feasibility study can be simplified.



However, unlike the original draft without a subject, the Minister of Strategy and Finance stated that he has the right to exempt.



In addition, the environmental impact assessment, which was omitted in the original draft, was also stipulated in the alternative.



It is interpreted as a result of being conscious of the criticism that it was a rushing legislative act that was hastily promoted ahead of the Busan mayoral by-election in April.



Yesterday, a day before today's vote, President Moon Jae-in visited Gadeokdo Island.



President Moon, who received reports from Gyeongnam Governor Kim Gyeong-soo and others, promised to proceed quickly.



[President Moon Jae-in: As soon as the special law is enacted, the government promises to proceed with the relevant procedures as quickly as possible and spare no necessary support.]



The power of the people who pushed the bill together was criticized as intervening in elections.