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P<\/span>lans for a\u00a0second airport in Jeju<\/a>, an egg-shaped island off the south coast of South Korea, have met with vigorous and sustained resistance since the sudden announcement of the project two years ago, in November 2015. The proposed site is in\u00a0Seongsan on the east coast of the island and residents of the five villages that would be affected, losing their homes and farmland,\u00a0were not consulted. Resistance has intensified in recent weeks<\/span> and on 10th October a group of residents and representatives of civic groups opposing the new airport assembled a protest tent outside the Jeju island government hall and began a sit-in<\/a>. The vice-chair of Seongsan people\u2019s committee against the 2nd Jeju airport project, Kim Kyung-bae, began an indefinite hunger strike and fellow protesters began relay fasting to show their support.<\/p>\n

Over the two years since the second airport plan was announced there has been\u00a0 a series protests and rallies, with the participation of hundreds of people. Most of the site earmarked for the proposed airport, about 70 per cent, is a farming area so the project threatens agricultural livelihoods and food production.<\/span> If the airport is built over 75 per cent of villagers of Seongsan would lose their homes<\/a> and other villages would also be severely impacted. Anti-airport actions have drawn on shamanic traditions<\/a>, channelling a multitude of spiritual energies such as the three founding fathers of the island and Youngdeung, the goddess of the wind and sea. Two years of resistance have seen houses sporting posters in their windows and streets bedecked with red and yellow flags and banners extending as far as 20 kilometers along the roads leading to affected villages. When Governor of Jeju Province<\/span>, Won Hee-ryong, made his first visit to the area for a year, v<\/span>illagers told him they felt as if they were being sacrificed for the tourism industry. Kang<\/span> argued that continuing to expand the tourism on the island would be \u201cridiculous\u201d, that citizens\u2019 rights and protection of the environment should take priority over pursuit of an increase in tourist dollars.<\/p>\n

Plans for a second airport are also of megaproject proportions. Jeju Governor, Won Hee-ryong, stated that the new airport would be the largest project in the history of the island, costing US$3.5 billion and scheduled to be complete by 2025. Planners envisage a single runway facility with capacity for 25 million passengers per year, equivalent to current traffic levels at Jeju\u2019s existing airport<\/a> but the airport could be expanded with the addition of a second runway.<\/span><\/p>\n

The airport would be the beginning of and focal point for an even larger development; an \u2018Air City\u2019<\/a>, another term for an aerotropolis, is planned around the airport, comprising shopping malls, convention facilities and financial centres. Anti-airport campaign leaders have voiced concerns that ecological destruction caused by the airport is set to be compounded by urban sprawl from the accompanying aerotropolis. Another tourism-oriented megaproject plan connected with the \u2018Air City\u2019<\/a> scheme, for a high speed network of rail and bus routes linking the island\u2019s main established and upcoming tourism centres \u2013 with the second airport among the key nodes \u2013 has raised concerns regarding the environmental impacts of construction activities.
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This is an extract from an article first published on antiaero<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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