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Although the cost of cleaning up pollution at 12 US military bases in Korea returned by the government on the 11th is estimated to be at least 100 billion won, there are concerns that the United States will not share the cost.
All the media, which broke the news on the 12th, expressed their concern and said that South Korea will preemptively bear the cost of cleaning up the contamination and discuss the possibility of sharing with the United States. The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “The government will first pay the cost of cleaning up the environment, but it will continue to discuss the issue of sharing the responsibility for environmental pollution and the cost of cleanup with the United States.” “The Taebaek Pilseung shooting range is oil contamination, and 11 other areas are heavy metal contamination has been confirmed. However, he noted that the United States has never paid for cleanup at its global garrisons, such as Japan and Germany.”
On the 11th, the government entered into an agreement with the United States to return 12 bases by holding a joint committee of the 201 ROK-US Stationary Forces Agreement (SOFA). It covers a total area of about 1.45 million square meters, a little more than half of Yeouido.
There are six return bases, including the ‘Far East Corps of Engineers’ in Jung-gu, Seoul, the’ Kim Camp ‘in Yongsan-gu, the’ 8th Army Religious Recreation Center ‘, the’ Niblo ‘, the’ Seobinggo US Intelligence Site ‘and the Sports and Softball Stadium at Yongsan Base. Also included were Gyeonggi-do’s Uijeongbu ‘Camp Jackson’, Dongducheon’s ‘Camp Mobile’ and Hanam’s ‘Seongnam Golf Course’. In other regions, part of the Gangwon Taebaek’Pilseung Shooting Range ‘, Daegu Nam-gu’Camp Walker Heliport’, and Gyeongbuk Pohang’US Marine Pohang Dispatch ‘were also returned.
The government concluded the agreement on the condition of consulting with the United States on the possibility of amending the SOFA to solve the problem of the cost of cleaning up the contamination. The cleanup costs for the 12 returned locations alone are estimated to be at least 100 billion won. As in Korea, Japan, and Germany, where the wording of the SOFA agreement was unclear, the United States has never shared in cleaning the return base.
All 12 sites have been confirmed to have a level of contamination that cannot be used as a residence at this time. The Hankyoreh said: “Although the contaminants and concentrations are different, contamination exceeding the standards of concern for soil contamination under national law (1 area) was confirmed at all 12 sites.” Saying.
Some discussions on public housing development from land
Yongsan base sports world and softball stadiums with a total size of 53,000 square meters are currently mostly turf and may open to the general public in the first half of next year because there are no special facilities .
The government plans to use most of the returned Yongsan base site to create Yongsan Park. The government is recruiting 3,000 people from the public participation group to seek opinions. There is also a plan to recycle 80 buildings of historic preservation value out of the 1,200 buildings on the site.
Chosun Ilbo said, “Some insist on developing the Yongsan base not only as a park, but also as an apartment to alleviate the housing shortage in Seoul.” “The fact that the Minister of National Defense Jung Kyung-du and the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation met in July with the US military base in Yongsan. There were also observations that it could be converted into residential land. “The government announced that it will develop a public housing complex in the 45,000-square-meter Kim camp of the Yongsan base. Taking into account the time it takes to purify the contamination, etc., development seems to be possible in at least 2-3 years.
The Hankook Ilbo “Anything to avoid the disciplinary committee”
Controversy continues over Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol’s Disciplinary Committee, which opened its first appointment on the 10th. The Ministry of Justice and President Yoon’s side also intervened to discuss the decision process on the decision to challenge the disciplinary committee. of Yoon. Yoon, who has filed a challenge against four of the five members of the disciplinary committee, argues that it is unfair that Shim Jae-cheol, the Prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice, was left out of the disciplinary committee after participating in the decision. “It is against justice for a member who plans to evade to participate in the decision to evade.”
Hankook Ilbo saw the Supreme Court case and said, “President Yoon’s side requested evasion with a somewhat unreasonable effort and left ‘Jachungsu’ aside.” In the ruling of the Supreme Court of November 2015 related to the disciplinary procedure of a university, it was not possible to say: “When several disciplinary members are asked to avoid, each member can not only participate in the resolution against himself, but who can participate in the resolution against others “. I put it.
He also noted that there is a suspicious aspect to the ‘intention to delay the disciplinary process’. In addition to the reasons for the individual legislators’ refusal, President Yoon proposed a common reason, saying, “There is a reason not to expect a fair review by combining two and three members.” In accordance with the Fiscal Discipline Law, the object of the objection to challenge cannot participate in the resolution.
However, in the case of “common grounds for three people”, two people can be selected and the quorum for the resolution is three people. The resolution itself would be impossible if a preliminary member were not added urgently. The Hankook Ilbo wrote: “It was a statement that the disciplinary committee would have suspected that Yun intended to delay the disciplinary committee’s proceedings.”
The second plenary meeting of the prosecution and the disciplinary commission will be held on the 15th. Dong-A Ilbo said: “There is a possibility that inside and outside the prosecution, it is time to show the difference in perspective of the divided prosecutors in two groups “. Of the eight witnesses who will be in attendance on the 15th, four are expected to testify for Yun, and the rest will testify against him.
Dong-A Ilbo said, “When considering the procedural justification that the prosecution and investigation against President Yoon was illegal, it is highly likely that the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office prosecutor Han Dong-soo is not illegal. It is noted that the prosecutor of the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office and the chief prosecutor’s office in charge of investigative information in the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Son Jun-seong will claim that it is not illegal.
Furthermore, in the investigation into the suspicion that Yoon interfered with the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office involving Prosecutor Han Dong-hoon, it was highly likely that the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Lee Seong-yoon, was absent and seized. he expected Gwangju District Attorney General Jeong Jin-woong to testify.
Corona, eaten up by the livelihood of the people, suffers half the unemployment and the reduction in wages of the people
According to the ‘Social Trends in Korea 2020’ published by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 11th, it was found that half of the people tried to lose their jobs or their wages decreased due to the Corona 19 incident. The Segye Ilbo emphasized that “particularly , there was a significant reduction in jobs for women, under-20s and temporary workers. “
According to the survey, only 50.3% of those surveyed said they received the same wages while keeping their jobs even in the Corona 19 incident in May. ‘I didn’t lose my job, but my salary went down’ (26.7%), ‘I lost my job’ (14.0%), and I didn’t lose my job, but I was on leave without pay ‘(9.0%).
Compared to the same month last year, in April, when jobs fell the most, 183,000 men and 293,000 women fell. The Segye Daily reported: “Even in October, the number of men and women decreased by 150,000 and 271,000 respectively.” It was the largest in October (250,000 people) and 5,000 people. “
As the number of corona19 infections has increased rapidly, the “red light” has also been turned on in the general emergency medical system. The Dong-A Ilbo reported that Seoul National University Hospital recently sent an official letter to 24 fire departments in Seoul stating that “request for transfer of emergency patients to our hospital and restriction of all.” “Many members of the medical staff are obsessed with treating Corona 19 patients, so they cannot afford to treat emergency patients as usual.”
The Central Defense Response Headquarters announced that as of midnight on the 11th, the number of confirmed cases increased by 689 compared to the previous day to a total of 40,786. As the third epidemic dragged on, the hospital bed shortage also became a reality. Kookmin Ilbo said: “(As of the 10th), there were 52 beds for critically ill immediately available, 4 in Seoul and only 3 in Gyeonggi-do. Just left “.
The Kookmin Ilbo reported that the government decided to send more than 800 military, police and public officials to public health centers in the metropolitan area to support epidemiological investigations, instead of raising the “three steps of social distancing” F..
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