Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon visited the construction site in the Noryangjin redevelopment promotion district on the 17th to inspect the work. The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to apply "Shintong Plan (quick integrated planning) 2.0" across the Noryangjin promotion district, ease regulations to improve project feasibility, and shorten permitting timelines. The goal is to start construction on eight zones by 2027, complete them by 2031, and supply a total of 10,000 households.
At the site, Oh said, "I welcome the news that zones 6 and 8 in Noryangjin have broken ground," adding, "We will support the remaining Noryangjin redevelopment zones so they can expedite administrative procedures and feasibility issues to move up groundbreaking." The Noryangjin redevelopment promotion district was designated as part of the second New Town in 2003, and all eight zones were designated between 2009 and 2010, pushing the project forward. Zones 6 and 8 in Noryangjin have broken ground; zones 4, 5, and 7 are in relocation and demolition; and zones 1 and 3 are at the management disposition plan (application) stage.
The city will strengthen preemptive monitoring to prevent conflicts with contractors caused by rapid increases in construction costs and will dispatch a redevelopment project coordinator to provide support if conflicts arise. In the case of zones 6 and 8, which broke ground this year, there had been conflicts with the contractor before construction, but the coordinator's mediation led to a quick groundbreaking.
In addition, zones 1, 3, and 4, which are improving project feasibility through measures such as higher floor area ratios under Regulatory Innovation No. 36 for redevelopment promotion projects, will be managed to keep procedures such as relocation and demolition from being delayed. Zone 4 became the first to benefit from simplified procedures for the Urban Redevelopment Committee's landscape change review, shortening the project period by more than a month.
In a Facebook post, Oh also said, "We will focus administrative capacity so that groundbreaking can be achieved quickly in the remaining six Noryangjin redevelopment promotion zones," adding, "By applying 'Shintong Plan 2,' we will drastically shorten the project period and do our utmost to ensure all zones complete move-ins by 2031."
Oh also pushed back against criticism from the ruling camp that the Shintong Plan, rolled out to support the rapid improvement of dwellings, is actually slowing the pace of dwellings supply. The Democratic Party of Korea held a forum the day before titled "The Shintong Plan has lost speed: a plan to revitalize by transferring Seoul City authority to district offices," and criticized that "the Shintong Plan has lost momentum and is failing to play its role in both speed and effectiveness."
He said, "Recently, some who did not even attempt to supply dwellings have disparaged and distorted the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Shintong Plan. It's not about words but about showing results—that is real supply," adding, "Starting construction on 310,000 units by 2031 is not impossible."