{"id":6247,"date":"2010-03-04T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:30:34","slug":"update-on-struggle-to-block-naval-base-in-jeju-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6247","title":{"rendered":"Update on Struggle to block Naval base in Jeju, South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an update from the No Bases Stories Korea blog about the struggle to stop the construction of a naval base in Jeju island, a world peace island. Although the base will be technically a South Korean base, it will be used by the U.S. as part of its missile defense system encircling China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&gt;&gt;&lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/translation-fwd-construction-for-jeju.html\">http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/translation-fwd-construction-for-jeju.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/translation-fwd-construction-for-jeju.html\">Jeju Naval Business Committee: Construction Set to be at the End of March, and Construction for the Harbor and Bay to be Started around June<\/a><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gnM5QlRx-4c\/S4_7FOXUTQI\/AAAAAAAAC6A\/Fiw9YNQYOU8\/s1600-h\/Tent+vigil+1.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444846541688032514\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gnM5QlRx-4c\/S4_7FOXUTQI\/AAAAAAAAC6A\/Fiw9YNQYOU8\/s400\/Tent+vigil+1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seogwipo.co.kr\/news\/read.php?idxno=57835&amp;rsec=MAIN&amp;section=MAIN\">Kim Kyung-Duk, Seogwipo Daily Newspaper, March 4, 2010<\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Shall the Spring Come to Gangjeong?:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">[Report] Visiting to Gangjeong Village before the Ceremony for Naval Base<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201c Even though, this tent vigil is very hard, we cannot have the spare to concern about farming.\u201d&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 85%;\"><span># &#8216;The village people are doing the tent vigils in the naval base planned area&#8217;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>\n&#8216;The villagers are setting the tents even in the planned area for the ceremony to set to work<br \/>\non the naval base and doing the tent vigil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The roads are so stuffed and filled with the placards and flags of such as, \u2018Please keep Gangjeong\u2019,<br \/>\n\u2018 [We death-defiantly] oppose the naval base\u2019, and \u2018Withdraw the naval base [plan] of the great environment damage\u2019. The peaceful good-water &amp; land of the village landscape has gone.<br \/>\nOnly the tension that would burst out whenever, is flowing, along with Gangjeong stream.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gnM5QlRx-4c\/S4_654DqQ5I\/AAAAAAAAC54\/B1YHatVqAzg\/s1600-h\/Tent+vigil+2.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444846346721444754\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gnM5QlRx-4c\/S4_654DqQ5I\/AAAAAAAAC54\/B1YHatVqAzg\/s400\/Tent+vigil+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Image source: same as the above link<\/span><\/p>\n<p># &#8216;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The villagers are setting the tents even in the planned area for the ceremony to start to work <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">on the naval base and doing the tent vigil<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8216;The villagers live at tent 24 hours, make-shifting by 4 ~5people as one team each time. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A villager (54) still clearly remembers <a href=\"http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/wmergency-police-raided-gangjeong.html\">Jan. 18 when the police indiscriminately took away the protesting villagers<\/a>, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">to prepare the ceremony to start to work on the construction of the naval base. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u201cI can not forget my stunned heart when the innocent ordinary people without any crime for their whole life time, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">were helplessly being dragged. The elder women and men are still suffering for the pain in their waists and heads <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">due to shock at the time.\u201d The hardest thing is the apathy of people&#8230; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">he says that the villagers\u2019 basic request to stop the ceremony<br \/>\nat least until the result of lawsuit has been totally ignored.&#8217; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gnM5QlRx-4c\/S4_ps4uUTgI\/AAAAAAAAC5w\/BqMNPRBqNVY\/s1600-h\/Jeju+naval+base+plan.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444827431864389122\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gnM5QlRx-4c\/S4_ps4uUTgI\/AAAAAAAAC5w\/BqMNPRBqNVY\/s400\/Jeju+naval+base+plan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">* The construction of the 1st part (harbor and bay constructional work),<br \/>\nwhich had originally been planned to be in January, had been handed over to <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/text-fwd-asian-workers-united-in.html\">Samsung<\/a> and Daerim.<br \/>\nThe Navy wants to finish the construction by the end of 2014. See the <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/plan-for-jeju-naval-base-revealed-with_18.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dec. 18, 2009 blog<\/span>.<\/a><br \/>\nThe government has allocated the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/spark-largely-cut-2010-defense-budget.html\">budget<\/a> for the Jeju Naval Base<br \/>\nat about 92.5 billion won [about $90 million] for 2010.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003333; font-weight: bold;\">___________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">* Below are the arbitrary translations of the most parts <span>of the two articles of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Sisa Jeju<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Seogwipo Daily Newspaper on March 4<\/span>, which were <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">combined together<\/span> for compensating the contents each other.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\nThe translated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sisajeju.com\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=50686\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sisa Jeju article<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">(black regular letters)<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Construction for the Jeju Naval Base Would be Set Up at the End of March<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #333333;\">:Jeju Naval Business Committee, \u201cThe Basic Plan for the Reclamation of the Public Sea has been permitted\u201d\u2026 Construction for the Harbor and Bay Would be Started around June<\/span><br \/>\nMarch 4, Thursday, 2010<br \/>\nKang Soo-Jung (kkangsoo83(at)sisajeju.com)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000066;\">The translated <\/span><a style=\"color: #000066;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seogwipo.co.kr\/news\/read.php?idxno=57865&amp;rsec=MAIN&amp;section=MAIN\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">eogwipo Daily Newspaper article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000066;\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">(<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000066; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Blue italic letters<\/span><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">)<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color: #000066; font-weight: bold;\">Despite the Villagers\u2019 Resistance, the Naval Base is Being Steadily Prepared<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399; font-weight: bold;\">: The Navy [has Requested] the License for Reclamation on March 3, and the Approval for the Realization Plan on March 4<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\">: Villagers Demand, \u201cStop it Until the [Result] of the Administrative Lawsuit.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">March 4, Thursday, 2010<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Kim Kyung-Duk (tree (at)seogwipo.co.kr)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(* <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Seogwipo<\/span> is the area where the Gangjeong village is located and the naval base would be set up.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #003333; font-weight: bold;\">_________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an update from the No Bases Stories Korea blog about the struggle to stop the construction of a naval base in Jeju island, a world peace island. Although the base will be technically a South Korean base, it will be used by the U.S. as part of its missile defense system encircling China. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=6247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Update on Struggle to block Naval base in Jeju, South Korea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-6247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}