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A legal battle between the government and environmental groups over the Saemangeum reclamation project has entered the second round, with both sides appealing to Seoul High Court.
The Ministry of Agriculture applied for an appeal Monday, saying it was difficult to consider the points raised by the bench in the first trial to be changes in situation grave enough to warrant massive alterations to or cancellation of the project. The first court decision said the project had lost focus, damaged water quality in the region and was not economically viable.
Prior to this, environmental organizations appealed on Saturday against the lower court’s refusal to nullify the 1991 license for the reclamation work.
It appears the legal war over the reclamation project will drag on for the time being, as the government plans to complete the construction of a seawall by the end of the year as scheduled, regardless of the appellate trial, while environmental groups will file a lawsuit in order to prevent the construction.
(Park Jong-se, jspark@chosun.com )
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