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There have been many places in the country that have been designated as parks for the past 20 years and have not been built. If you add it up, it is about 127 times the area of ​​Yeouido. Development restrictions on these lands will be lifted next month. Arbitrarily bundling private land is due to the Constitutional Court's decision to violate property rights. The government and the local governments that responded said they had defended 84% of the park's land, and there are conflicts with landlords across the country.

Reporter Yoo Su-hwan and reporter Im Tae-woo will tell you what the problem is and there is no solution.

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Seoul Yangjae-dong Maljukgeori Park has provided greening and relaxation in the city center surrounded by high-rise buildings.

For decades, this is a park that residents have used as a walkway.

However, the fence is now closed and cannot be entered.

Most of the land in the park is private, but it has been laid by landowners since last year.

They say they haven't been rewarded for 20 years, rather than exercising their rights.

[Choi Jae-hyuk/Maljuk Park Site Owner: You are using it indiscriminately. But it wasn't that I paid for it. The right thing to do is to pay properly and use it.] The

so-called'Park Sunset Festival' will be released from the 1st of next month, when the development restrictions will be lifted.

On the 29th, 74% of the target site for sunset festivals, such as Maljukgeori Park, was decided to be designated as'Urban Nature Park Area' this time.

In the meantime, if it was not developed as a park for a long time, it was a sunset festival that would expire, but the'Urban Nature Park Area' will not disappear unless the local government releases it.

[Park Won-soon/ Mayor of Seoul: Since taking office, he has given strict instructions that a park in Hanpyeong should not be made effective or developed until now… .] In

this way, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it had kept 84% of the park, which had almost disappeared.

[Choi Jae-hyuk/Maljukgeori Park Land Owner: It is the sunset of the park that made me release (after 20 years). But as the park sunset festival is approaching, I'm going to tie my life to the park area. So what were you going to do with the Constitutional Court... .]

Some land owners are predicting administrative litigation and constitutional appeals, and the conflict surrounding the park site will likely continue.

(Video coverage: Youngchun Chun, Video editing: Park Jeongsam)

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Gwangju City is promoting a so- called'private park special project' in 9 out of 25 sunset sites in urban parks.

After a private company buys the entire city park, 70% or more of the parks are created and donated to local governments, and less than 30% are developed for profitable business.

It has the advantage of solving the local government's lack of budget and the compensation of landlords at once.


However, it must be attractive for development, meet the area standards, and take part in the disappearance of greenery.

In the case of Cheonan, in fact, there is a conflict in trying to develop Ilbongsan Park in this way.

[Cha Soo-cheol/Co-chair of Ilbongsan Citizens' Countermeasures Committee: All of the park, which is left as a mountain, flies to apartments, and the entire lower part of the mountain is developed around the promenade… .]

Eventually, for the first time in the country, a referendum was held.

[Bang Yong-suk/ Cheonan Citizen: People who have this land in front of them, these people agree (for the development of the private park), and the residents oppose… .] The

fundamental solution is to reward landlords appropriately, and a law has been recently proposed to significantly expand government support.

Currently, the government supports 70% of the interest rate of local bonds issued by local governments to purchase land, and the government is responsible for up to 70% of the cost of land purchase.

There are also opinions that, like paid parks in foreign countries, the'greenery tax', which is the usage fee, is collected and given to the land owners.

[Professor Oh, Chung-Hyun/Dept. of Bio-Environmental Engineering, Dongguk University: From a general citizen's point of view, there is a considerable benefit, so it is of course necessary to consider in the long term that it is necessary to compensate the land owners by introducing a corresponding'green tax'. felled… .] It

is urgent to prepare wise measures to preserve the site of the park as much as possible and to protect individual property rights.

(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok, Video editing: Jun-hee Kim)