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Origin of Saemangeum

  • The Honam plain, which is the largest and the most fertile in South Korea, was called Geumman plain named from the letter 'Geum'(金) of Gimje plain and the letter 'Man'(萬) of Mangyeong plain. Geumman became Saemangeum in 1986. Geumman was changed into Mangeum, and Saemangeum was called by added 'Sae' meaning a new in front of Mangeum to create a new land. It included the meaning of 'a new Mangeum's land'. Moreover, it meant 'making a new fertile land. Therefore, in many ways, it had a good name.
  • The name of region 'Saemangeum' started to be well-known since the government had announced 'the Saemangeum reclaimation development plan' in July of 1987. The government set forth the largest reclaimation project since Dangun as the main election promise at a time when the presidential election is coming. Since that time, Saemangeum had become the main character of countless twists and turns. The Saemangeum project, which was smoothly going on in years since the seawall construction in 1991, became the focus of controversy when the environment debate started off in 1995. For the next 10 years, Having gotten involved in demonstrations and legal actions caused by environmental organizations and religious circles and local citizens, it fell off from 'the best reclaimation project of the world' to the major term of conflict of our society. However, with the end of incoherent court debate for 10 years, the construction of the world's longest seawall which is a length of 33.9km which is longer than the length of 32.5km of Zuiderzee seawall of Netherlands had been completed in April of 2010 and also been listed in the Guinness Book of Records on August 2nd of 2010. For now, it has overcome all the tensions and conflicts, and the most eco-friendly projects are being pushed forward as a model area of green growth.

History of Saemangeum development

Initial plan of Saemangeum project(1991)
  • 100% agriculture and fisheries-centered development
  • Create agricultural·food production base
Initial plan of Saemangeum project(1991)
'07. 4. Plan of land use
  • Mixed-use development plan
  • Agricultural land : Non-agricultural land = 72 : 28
07. 4. Plan of land use
'08. 10. Change of the plan of land use
  • Create multi function convergence and complex base
  • Agricultural land : Non-agricultural land = 30 : 70
08. 10. Change of the plan of land use
'10. 1. Basic plan of internal development
  • Plan of luxury complex city development
  • Create the city opening a new civilization, Northeast Asian economic center
10. 1. Basic plan of internal development
'11. 3. Saemangeum comprehensive development plan
  • Realize the creative green waterside city
  • Give shape to a plan of land use and a plan of infrastructure
11. 3. Saemangeum comprehensive development plan
'14. 9. General plan of Saemangeum(revision)
  • Change into customized open plan for investment activation
  • Introduction of special economic cooperation zone for promoting global economic cooperation base
14. 9. General plan of Saemangeum(revision)
′21. 2. 24.: the Saemangeum change of basic plan
  • The global green growth center implementation leading the carbon neutral society
  • By stage development plan forming for the green technology and economy base brought up and business promotion specification
21. 2. 24.: the Saemangeum change of basic plan