[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, FUEL: U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Yongsan in central Seoul, South Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Seoul presses USFK on oil cleanup 


By Kim Se-jeong 
Korea Times
June 6, 2017

The Seoul Metropolitan Government is organizing a forum on oil contamination in the soil of U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Yongsan in central Seoul, Thursday, in an effort to pressure the U.S. to clean the site before its relocation is completed.  

The city said the forum has enormous backing from citizens.

“We’re organizing this knowing there’s support coming from the public,” a city official said.

In May, the city conducted a survey of 3,040 Seoul residents, and 65 percent responded that the U.S. military should be held responsible for cleaning up any oil contamination and must do it before the land is returned ― the United States Forces Korea(USFK) headquarters and Eighth Army headquarters are currently relocating to Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, which is expected to be finished by the end of the year.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2017/06/371_230729.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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