The People Power Party's Seoul mayoral candidate Oh Se-hoon's camp criticized Democratic Party of Korea candidate Chong Won-o, saying, "In 2018, Seongdong District's Majang Zone 2 in Seoul was revoked by administrative authority," and added, "Chong, who was the Seongdong District chief at the time, squandered the area's redevelopment project."
On the 25th, Lee Chang-mu, Chairperson of Oh's election committee's Seoul Real Estate Normalization Special Committee, issued a commentary and stated accordingly, saying, "The administrative revocation of Majang Zone 2 is not merely a past incident."
The Chairperson said, "Majang Zone 2 was designated as a planned redevelopment zone in 2004, and residents had prepared the redevelopment project there for a long time," adding, "After completing the redevelopment plan in 2013, the framework of the project had largely taken shape, but in 2018 it was revoked by administrative authority on the grounds that 'fewer than 50% supported the project.'"
The Chairperson added, "Former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon effectively neutralized the safeguard of lifting redevelopment zones, and pushed through administrative revocations under the name of the 'New Town exit strategy,'" and continued, "As a result, Majang Zone 2—an ultra-station-area site connected to Cheonggyecheon and Wangsimni that urgently needs high-density, mixed-use development—had to endure a long period of stagnation."
The Chairperson went on, "Chong failed to protect residents against City Hall's excessive policy of administrative revocations," adding, "The redevelopment project was derailed, and the station-area residential district lost its development opportunity. What did you do when the redevelopment project was collapsing?"
He continued, "Chong now says he will do well at both redevelopment and urban regeneration, but Majang Zone 2 shows how hollow those words are," adding, "This is an episode that questions the reality of Chong's so-called 'redevelopment competence theory.'"