Presidential Aide Calls for Developing Parts of Planned Yongsan Park into Residential Housing
As I have long said, I never believed the Yongsan Park plan was going to survive the pressure from developers in Seoul. There is just too much money to be made from developing the prime real estate in the middle of Seoul. The Yongsan Park is likely going to end up being much smaller than originally planned:
A senior presidential aide on Wednesday said housing development on part of land set aside for a park in central Seoul could help South Korea tackle the former US military base’s costly soil cleanup, while putting a vast tract of prime land to use.
The proposal has emerged as a contentious part of the Lee Jae Myung administration’s Aug. 13 housing supply policy, as the government seeks to accelerate the construction of homes in central Seoul to stabilize the housing market.
The Lee administration is considering public rental and specialized housing for young people and newlyweds on parts of the Yongsan Park site, but the idea has drawn opposition from the Seoul city government, Yongsan District Office and residents.
Opponents argue that the land should be preserved as a symbolic national park and a rare green space in central Seoul after more than 120 years of foreign military presence, saying that once housing is built there, it cannot be turned into green space.
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Commies like ugly cement blockhouses more than they like nature. And government housing projects on environmentally-contaminated lands will murder more children.
The Lee gov’t is probably going to sell the real estate to China anyways…
Knew this was going to happen as soon as they said it was going to be a park….The Park Place Apartments.
Josh, Commie Clown Lee won’t sell it to the commie chinese; he will give it to them.
A “costly cleanup” is less costly when you entomb it all in concrete.
So they want to build more housing at Yongsan Park.
What are @setnaffa , @GIKorea and the Setnaffarians whining about?
They were complaining about the Korean government not taking over the former USFK land fast enought and now that the Korean government is taking over and building housing they are now complaining.
Are they miffed the Korean government is getting rid of the last vestiges of USFK in Seoul, when in fact USFK has gone down to Pyongtaek?
I wonder how @GIKorea and @setnaffa would have reacted had the disgraced Yoon decided to build housing on former USFK land in Yongsan.
If they wanted for the USFK to stay in Korea they should have voted for Kamala.
They got what they asked for by voting for Trump.
@Korean Person, you further tip your hand that you are 50 Cent Army when you do not understand the power of developers in Korea. Having that much prime real estate in the middle of Seoul was always going to put immense pressure on the government to develop it. That is why I never believed the land would ever be fully developed into a park.
With that said I hope I am wrong and the people of Seoul get their park. The original plan for the park I think is pretty impressive and a much needed green space in the middle of the city.
I think Korea has a lot of greenery for such a large city, with a population of 20 million. It even has an impressive-looking stream running through the middle of the city, with so many fish, plants, and birds. The Han River Park and the Namsan Tower areas are also very impressive. They are so clean and green. If this were America, there would be homeless people on drugs and alcohol living in tents because they can’t afford the dystopian society’s housing costs, which only the rich can live in, and where only the rich can afford Medicare. At least the Korean government cares about the lives of its people, unlike the war-loving Dystopia.
Mad Bob, you are right again, as you frequently are.
Homeless on drugs and alcohol are a big problem… but primarily in the Democrat-controlled cities, somehow. Republican plot?
And America’s healthcare is terrible. What was it called again? “Obamacare”. Yes, another product of the far right.
Housing? Take a look at the requirements to build housing in liberal vs conservative areas. Google The Wharton Residential Land Use Regulatory Index to find out more¹.
Most of the problems you bring up are started by Democrats and supported by RINOs.
I agree these problems need to be solved. Do you support a purge or do you have a different idea?
¹There is another situation in rich neighborhoods that keep out development, as rich people don’t want more development…though no homeless people there to begin with.
Affluent blue suburb: “Protect open space, trees, community character, environmental quality.”
Affluent red suburb: “Protect property values, single-family neighborhoods, local control and community character.”
The language changes. The resulting zoning restriction can be nearly identical.
This also shows another example of the left always appealing to emotion to the point of lying while the right has more realism.
Well, let’s put it this way: Mr Trumpie c*ck sucker in the Epstein File. Obviously, America’s problems have been building up for years and years through multiple administrations, transcending party lines. But don’t try to blame all this on Biden, Hunter Biden, Clinton, or Obama. When your Dear Leader is running a $2 trillion deficit while waging an expensive illegal war on Iran, invading that country with no good reason, you’re going to run up the national debt to $40 trillion by adding $5 trillion just in the last year and a half. Who started the second Iraqi War with made-up lies that Saddam Hussein was developing nukes? Another Republican moron. When you’re blowing through half the budget on the military and on wars, of course you won’t have the money for anything else like medical health insurance or for affordable housing, and for other social services that only the rich receive in the form of tax cuts. It’s because you’re basically insolvent.
$40 trillion in debt, America is toast now. Nobody’s going to buy your bonds when you’re paying your debt through credit cards. Good luck, moron.
Goooood… let the rage flow through you Darth Bob…
“Well, let’s put it this way: Mr Trumpie c*ck sucker in the Epstein File.”
1. There is absolutely no evidence he sucks còcks. The evidence shows he is more inclined to grab ’em by the pùssy and not the dìck.
2. If he was in the Epstein File in any bad way, that’s all we would hear about.
So you are wrong… yet again.
“Obviously, America’s problems have been building up for years and years through multiple administrations, transcending party lines.”
Yep.
“But don’t try to blame all this on Biden, Hunter Biden, Clinton, or Obama.”
What is “this”? There are a lot of “this”. Many of them can be blamed on Biden, Clinton, and Obama. This can be demostrated by graphing “this” on an overlay of presidential administration.
“When your Dear Leader is running a $2 trillion deficit”
The theory is that spending this money to get America’s economic ducks in a row will pay off to the point 40 trillion isn’t a big deal. If the anti american sabotures can be purged, it might even work.
“while waging an expensive illegal war on Iran,”
Affordable. Not illegal. Cheaper than dealing with a nuclear Iran with a fatalistic view of the world through a death cult.
“invading that country with no good reason,”
Didn’t invade. Had a good reason.
“you’re going to run up the national debt to $40 trillion by adding $5 trillion just in the last year and a half.”
See the above plan about the economy.
“Who started the second Iraqi War with made-up lies that Saddam Hussein was developing nukes? Another Republican moron.”
Bush & Co. was evil shit. While discussing the past and blaming Trump, should we credit him as we talk about how many Republicans died to free slaves while Democrats fought to own them?
“When you’re blowing through half the budget on the military and on wars, of course you won’t have the money for anything else”
Everyone keeps saying “wars”. Keeping Iran from having nuclear weapons or any long-term control over the global economy is not “wars”.
” like medical health insurance”
OBAMAcare
“or for affordable housing,”
Especially in Democrat controlled areas, as we discussed and demonstrated.
” and for other social services that only the rich receive in the form of tax cuts.”
Which you will find makes up a shockingly small percent of this expenditure.
“It’s because you’re basically insolvent.”
As “social services” is the 3rd largest expenditure in the American budget, it seems insolvency and expenditure are not issues. The more anyone looks, which is always blocked by the American left, the more it is found entire industries are fraudulent. It isn’t that America doesn’t have the money (pr can’t make it). It is because it goes to Ethiopia instead of dumb and hungry kids. It goes to Mexico instead of care for old people who died years ago. It goes somewhere other than getting homeless off the streets in leftist cities that “spend” increasing money to tackle the “growing problem” of homelessness yet have nothing to show for it beyond expanding expenditures.
“”$40 trillion in debt, America is toast now. Nobody’s going to buy your bonds when you’re paying your debt through credit cards.”
This has been said for DECADES. And somebody still buys American bonds. It doesn’t make sense to me either. But it seems the alternative is global financial collapse and as much as everyone wants to get away from the dollar they can’t get their act together. It might have something to do with the fate of those who seriously tried… Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Iran, and Russia (forced into a war by the threat of NATO on its border)
“Good luck, moron.”
Luck is not an issue. A track record of incremental success despite constant sabotage demonstrates they are not morons.
You know who are morons? Those who support domestically destructive things like Antifa, BLM, ACAB, illegal aliens, criminals, etc.
@Mad Bob, you are describing leftist run major cities filled with crime and homelessness. If you go to major Republican run city like OK City or Ft. Worth you do not see a homeless crisis like which has gripped leftist run cities.
It is pretty clear that policies that enable drug abuse and homelessness creates more of it in those areas. However enabling is lucrative as we have seen from all the money NGOs are earning to make the problem worse.
Isn’t Indiana a Red state, going on 14th day without power after a storm ripped through it?
Furthermore, 8 of the 10 states that have the highest overall poverty rates and the lowest median household incomes are Red states. Homelessness in Red states is just as bad, but unlike the Blue states, they’re homeless because the level of education and basic social services is severely lacking. Red states have much lower life expectancy, which is not surprising.
And without the Blue states financially supporting the Red states, they would be in a much worse situation.
But let’s see what will happen in November. Will Trump allow the “commies” to take over, or will he declare a state of emergency and cancel the fair election? Come on, sycophants, do something before you lose your power.
MadBob vs. Chickenhead:
And poor little old me…
Since @GIKorea deflected, here was my original question
It is obvious that @GIKorea is deflecting and projecting.
@setnaffa once said that only “chinabots” deflect and project.
So as per @setnaffa logic, @GIKorea is a “chinabot”
Of course it is common knowledge that @GIKorea is receiving money from China. So it is no wonder he acts like a “chinabot.”