[Herald Interview] ‘US-owned hotel should be moved out of proposed Yongsan park’
Social affairsMay 23, 2021
Yongsan-gu mayor said that a US military resort hotel in the city should be out of an envisioned national park slated to open within a decade. Upon the agreement made between Korea and the US in 2003, the US Forces Korea headquarters and the United Nations Command moved to Pyeongtaek in 2018, ending the US military presence in the city. In 2005, the Korean government announced plans to build the nation’s first urban national park in the area by 2027. “The land occupied by foreign