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Recently, the city council announced that it would cut off electricity to withdraw the memory space of the Sewol ferry, but it was canceled.

Conflict is escalating as the previous city council made a decision to allow more land use, but the new council rejected it after the local elections.



Reporter Suwon-wook Suh covered the story.



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A one-man protest in front of the Seoul City Council since the 20th.



When the Seoul City Council office tried to demolish the memory space of the Sewol ferry in front of the parliament building, the bereaved family and civil society organizations responded.



[Seonggwibong/Wonju-si, Gangwon-do: I think that demolition erases our memories and obstructs the road to the construction of a safe society that we always talk about.]



'Sewol Ferry Memory Space' is a memory of the Sewol Ferry incident. It is a memorial facility that opened in Gwanghwamun Square in April 2019 with the purpose of doing so.



As part of the Gwanghwamun Square restructuring project, it was moved to the front of the Seoul City Council in November last year.



The 30th of last month was the expiry date of the land use contract, and the 10th Seoul City Council passed a bill to allow the site to be used for two more years nine days before the contract expired.

[Kim In-ho/Chairman of the Seoul City Council at the time: I declare that the motion to extend the permission to install a temporary temporary building for the



Sewol ferry memory space and to exempt the usage fee has been approved.]



It was.



On the 1st and 7th, the newly formed city council secretariat sent an official letter on the policy of forced removal to the 4.16 Regiment, saying that the bill passed by the last assembly had no effect.



While negotiations between the two sides were in progress, the conflict intensified when the secretariat announced on the 19th that the electricity would be cut off.



[Kim Gyu-Ri-Ha / 416 Regiment Activist: (To prevent demolition) I was thinking of setting up a 24-hour working system in three shifts.] After a



controversy, the chairman of the Seoul City Council withdrew the power cut policy.



[Park Eun-hee / Danwon High School's late Yu Ye-eun's mother: I expected it to a certain extent, but I was like, 'Should I just push it this far?'

I think there were half and half opinions, 'Isn't that the case?'] The



Seoul City Council announced that they would try to solve it further through dialogue, but the bereaved family said that the mayor did not respond to the request for an interview.



(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo and Yoon Hyung, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, VJ: Lee Jun-young)