
AI-generated summary
Although Ganghwa-gun belongs to Incheon City, it is a border area adjacent to North Korea and is excluded from various supports due to the application of the Seoul Metropolitan Area Readjustment Planning Act. This is becoming an obstacle to regional development and residents’ welfare.
Visited Incheon City Hall to appeal for damage… “It’s a border area, but it’s reverse discrimination because it’s a metropolitan area.”
(Incheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Hong Hyun-ki = Ganghwa-gun, Incheon City, which belongs to the border area, requested the attention of the central government and Incheon City, saying that it is being excluded from various types of support because it is in the metropolitan area.
Park Yong-cheol, the governor of Ganghwa County, met with reporters at Incheon City Hall on the 15th and said, "Ganghwa County is close to North Korea to the extent that harvesting can be seen in North Korea's Yeonbaek Plain, but it is not receiving any support due to the Seoul Metropolitan Area Readjustment Planning Act."
He said, "It's been about a year since North Korea's broadcasts to South Korea ended, but compensation is not being received properly. As compensation targets are administratively determined based on roads, there is a problem of not being able to receive compensation even after suffering damage."
Governor Park also requested measures to be taken, saying that noise damage caused by aircraft taking off and landing at Incheon International Airport has been increasing recently.
County Governor Park said, “After Incheon International Airport’s 2nd Passenger Terminal began operating, there is a lot of fatigue in the southern part of Ganghwa.” He added, “It’s not even once every 10 to 20 minutes, but one every minute, so I can’t even answer the phone properly.”
He explained that there was no cause for concern regarding the detection of uranium above the 'drinking water quality standard' at a water supply facility that collects groundwater from Seogeomdo, Ganghwa-gun.
County Governor Park said, “Fisherman and merchants are suffering as YouTubers joke that seawater and marine products cannot be safe due to uranium.” He added, “Uranium radicals were reflected due to the effects of acid rain and depleted groundwater, but there is no problem after cleaning up the water supply and replacing the water purifier.”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The central government and Incheon City will reexamine the issue of excluding support from Ganghwa-gun.
Possible · Within weeks

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