As the Lee Jae-myung administration proposed transferring the Gyeonggi Gwacheon City racetrack (Let's Run Park Seoul) as one of its "measures to expand the supply of dwellings," the labor union of the Korea Racing Authority (KRA) pushed back.
The Korea Racing Authority (KRA) union said on the 4th it will hold a general assembly of all members on the 5th at the main auditorium of the KRA headquarters in Gwacheon. The union plans to decide its direction for a fight against the government at the assembly and launch collective action.
The Korea Racing Authority (KRA) union said, "The government's unilateral decision to transfer the racetrack is an attempt to shrink and dismantle our core business sites, and a move to obliterate the workplaces and dignity of public workers."
It added, "Citing the supply of dwellings as a pretext, a hasty and unilateral policy decision without sufficient social consensus and review has caused enormous confusion," and "we make clear that public workers are not a group that can be tidied away at any time."
On the 29th, the government announced it would supply about 60,000 dwellings in the capital region for young people and newlyweds. In Gwacheon, it included a plan to integrate and develop the Defense Security Command site (280,000㎡) and the nearby racetrack (1,150,000㎡) to supply 9,800 units.