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As you can see, the left side is Gwanghwamun Square right now, and the right side is Gwanghwamun Square, which Seoul will spend 100 billion won to change. The key is to drive the plaza towards Sejong Center, and to reduce the lanes to 6 lanes. Under the plan, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security asked the government to postpone the project last month, saying there were a lot of inadequacies. Today, Seoul said it will push ahead as scheduled.

Seoul City's insistence that there were plenty of meetings and many voices of the citizens.

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The City of Seoul held an emergency briefing today and countered the request by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security to delay the restructuring of the Gwanghwamun Plaza.

[Jinhee-sun / Seoul Administrative Deputy Mayor: Even though we listened to the opinions of the Ministry of Administration and actually accepted most of the demands, it was surprising that we would also oppose the Ministry of Public Affairs by sending an official letter. ]

The ministry pointed out that the public officials should first prepare an alternative to civil society's point of view, such as one-way communication without communication.

[Jinhee-sun / Deputy Mayor of Administrative City, Seoul: Communication with citizens, this section also talked about it, in fact, I have had nearly 59 meetings with them through the Citizens' Committee.]

However, according to the civic committee meeting materials obtained by SBS, 56 of the 59 meetings were meetings of experts including architecture professors.

The official gathering of non-specialist citizens was only three times a year.

There was only one more round of non-specialist civic involvement meetings since SBS pointed out in February that the Citizens' Council had had only two official meetings of non-specialized citizens during the six months of its launch.

[Seoul City officials: There are many office workers and many students, so it wasn't so easy to get together at one time.]

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has said that it will make up for the shortcomings, such as opening an online communication space, but it is difficult to avoid criticism that it has raised citizens for the restructuring of the plaza.

(Video coverage: Hanil Sang Image editing: Cho Moo-hwan, VJ: Kim Hyung-jin)