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Three years ago, a new deal project for urban regeneration began to revitalize underdeveloped areas and let them regenerate themselves.
It seems like it is time to settle now, but our data journalism team's guideline checks, and it turns out that there are not a few problems in budget execution and business location selection.
Reporter Bae Jeong-hoon reports.
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A residential area in Nam-gu, Ulsan.
It was selected as a project site for the 2018 Urban Regeneration New Deal and plans to complete the project by next year.
However, the site of the former Ulju-gun government building where youth housing was built is neglected, and the creation of an eco-friendly pedestrian space has not even begun.
Of the 3,176 million won allocated to the project, only 7 million won, 0.2% of the total, was used.
[Ulsan City Corporation official: The purchase of the site was delayed by one year, and other decision-making began the same year after that...
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Cheongju, Chungbuk, which became a business site in 2017, is similar.
Cars were running around where they wanted to make a car-free pedestrian path.
I didn't spend a single penny in my 2018 budget, last year only 6.6% and this year 25.8%.
As a result of the roadblock analysis, the average execution rate of the nationwide urban renewal new deal over the past three years was 54.6%.
[Chang-Gyu Choi/Professor, Hanyang University Graduate School of Urban Studies: We need to be prepared to activate this declining area.
I hope to see it longer, I.
'Spend 5 billion in five years (as it is now)' In fact, it's like having indigestion right now.]
Poor selection criteria were also a problem.
In order to apply for a business, at least two conditions must be satisfied among the population, business, and old housing, but the standards were so loose that nearly 70% of the nation's towns and villages correspond.
As such, Sejong City was selected for all the selected regions, and Ulsan and Gyeonggi Province were selected even though more than half were not far behind the national average.
[Bae Woong-gyu/Professor, Chung-Ang University, Department of Social Infrastructure Systems Engineering: After setting the time and number, this problem is bound to arise.
There is no choice but to include places that have not been verified...
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Regarding this point, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport explained that "the decline is not necessarily selected because the conditions have been met," and that "the guideline is being revised to maintain the appropriate standards."