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 the opposing forces said like "We don't trust the present government because the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project was not matched with their assertion and purpose as compared with truth," "There is not any national consensus about this, it seems that government does the canal business surreptitiously." Lately, there are strong arguments about this dispute after the program of MBC, <PD's Note> was not aired.

From the above paragraph, you can see the different opinion of the ruling party and  the opposition party. Of course, the contra's position was based on professional knowledge which experts found. Anyway, DKH suddenly wondered what those who live near major rivers think about this national project. So DKH visited an amusement park near Nakdong River. And then we interviewed a merchant who runs  his own restaurant near river.

Q1. Where do you stand on the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project between approval and disapproval?
At first, I agreed with this project because the administration tried to purchase the land where our business areas are. But now I don't care about it, neither for nor against this national project. As soon as seeing the compensation, my little hope was gone because I realized that I can't pick out a site with the level of compensation. I just have a worry about if I get the compensation where I should go or if not what I should do here for my family's livelihood. This seems like a story like fairy tales to us whatever happens to rivers and whoever quarrels over this. We don't have anything much bigger than preparation for my later years and the costs of college.

Q2. What has happened in this amusement park after this project was started?
You know, the Nakdong River has been much murkier than last year so naturally those who enjoy aquatic sports don't want to come here anymore. Also tourists don't want to eat hot fish stew which was made from freshwater fishes. In this situation, most of merchants were depressed and didn't know what to do. I am not sure what government said is right for the local economy…

 

   
¡ã The four major rivers is flowing with its pristine environment.

 

We could see clearly that merchants of the amusement park next to Nakdong River connected the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project with their "bread and butter" and business more than political conflict. It contained much more sense of reality comparing the opposition and the ruling party are arguing each other using the objective and numerical value of data. During the interview, we had some questions in our mind: who is this project that the government is struggling to carry out for ? We felt that all this disturbance was just a way for both parties to gain advantage  in the political field. If one of the principal reasons of this project was to revive regional economies, the government should not have concern about the merchants that make a living near the river. It seems to be another way to gain fortune for who has 'fortune.' At the same time, we wondered what has really been done by the party that opposed the project. We felt that they just 'opposed' to it. Wasn't it a fight for nothing during several years without any specific solution for merchants and the ecological environment of four major rivers that both parties have been arguing for? And don't you think the four major rivers themselves have lost too many things during that time?

Anyway, the opinion about the controversy is up to you. As you can see through an example of Gyeongbu Expressway for land development that there were many arguments at that time, we still couldn't find an exact answer for it. Therefore, the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project will be hard to evaluate if it is right or wrong, will succeed or fail. Whether you agree or disagree with the national project, what people can do right now is maybe to protect the four major rivers before they get into a critical situation than they have already gone thoroughly…


Lee Jae-Kyu  dkherald@google.com
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