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July 22, 1999 will come to be known as the day Korea's greenbelt zones ceased to exist, 28 years after coming into existence in July of 1971. While the country wheezed and coughed through rapid development and industrialization, greenbelt zones served as the lungs of Korea's congested urban centers by blockading their sprawl. These greenbelt zones have given hope over the years to people who have been suffering from the effects of pollution stemming from the country's industrialization. I felt frustrated with the government's announcement today that it is ending its greenbelt policy for two reasons,hollister.
First of all,abercrombie, government officials in charge have been insisting all along that the greenbelt issue is the most important item on the country's political agenda, saying that in addition to residents of the greenbelt zones, most Koreans were against the lifting of the ban on development in these areas,abercrombie and fitch. Despite prevailing public sentiment in favor of preserving the greenbelt, the government instead barreled ahead over the course of just a year and a half to lift protections on these special zones. On this day, when the government announced the end of its greenbelt policy, six journalists, professors and private citizens who had been participating in a government consulting body for the greenbelt issue, resigned from their posts, claiming that the announcement had been made without consulting with them.
Secondly, it seems that speculators have, once again,abercrombie, proven to be right. For the past 28 years, real estate investors and speculators have been snapping up lands in the greenbelt zone, with ownership of 79% of all greenbelt lands changing hands during that period,abercrombie. Out of a total of approximately 742,abercrombie france,000 residents currently living in greenbelt zones, 589,000 have officially "relocated" there from other areas of the country since the introduction of the greenbelt policy, but these regions also claim a 65,jordan pas cher.5% rate of residents who are renting housing. The numbers do not add up. This rate is also far above the 46.7% average rental rate for the rest of the country,hollister france. Likely,moncler, many landowners have been ensconced in their luxury apartments in Seoul,air jordan, keeping their fingers crossed, hoping for the day that has now arrived,hollister pas cher.
With the government appearing to lose interest in upholding the greenbelt policy in recent months, land sales in protected areas doubled this past May,hollister. For whom and for what has the government decided to end its protection of greenbelt lands?
(July 22, 1999, santafe@chosun.com)
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