Who are you to insist on a new airport even if the island is torn apart?

[We sing our song] 4. Kim Kwang-ryeol, poet

In 2019, the fall issue (No. 66) of Jeju Writers was titled 'Jeju, Aiming for Illusion'. As Jeju Island was suffering, and a huge destructive scenario of a second airport loomed, members of the Jeju Writers' Association climbed a hill that might disappear, put up wall poems, and collected poems against the second airport for the feature. Time passed, and eventually, the basic plan for the second airport was published. The government plans to build the second airport anyway. The government is planning to build a second airport on Jeju Island without regard for the destruction of the island's identity, but only for the economic benefits of the construction. Nature was here first, but man is destroying it. We've seen too many communities destroyed by development. We can't be bystanders. The conflict between the Gangjeong Naval Base and the second airport is making Jeju an island of conflict, not an island of peace. It is the duty of us writers living on this island to reflect the times. We want to sing our song by serializing our poems in a relay series. / Jeju Writers' Association

What faraway country are you from that you insist on building a new airport in Jeju even if the land is torn apart by a 4.3 earthquake?

Who are you?
Kim Kwang-ryul

Why are you so persistent to the end?

beautiful minds and spirits
hundreds of thousands of sincere mouths and mouths
oppose the construction of the new Jeju airport
we must finally dismantle Jeju's nature
intuition will be unleashed
Seongsan-eup Sinsan Nansan Onpyeong Susan Seongsan
development is nothing
it's as easy as flipping the palm of your hand
plowing the land and cutting down the forest
cutting the ascent waist in two
disturbing the ecosystem
or
tearing down field walls, or
burying unique cultural heritage, or
destroying lava caves and skeletons, or
tearing down the
homes that our ancestors have lived in for so long, and that
their descendants have lived in and will live in, and that their descendants will live in and continue to live in, is nothing short of cutting off your own hands and feet,
gouging out your eyes, ears, and tongue,
gutting your flesh, skinning your bones, and
cutting off your breath, and
it's a sad, sick way of burying yourself
there,
Those who
screech and shout that they're going to build a new airport and
fly planes in and out of it,
in the name of attracting tourists,
or boosting the economy, or
neighborhoods, who want to turn
the island of peace into a
giant graveyard,
that one island
wiped off the map, what's the big deal
and long ago
someone said,
your soul like your body,
the land of Jeju
4.Even if it is torn apart like 3,
we must build a new airport on Jeju,
you who are so stubborn in the end,
who are you from what faraway country?

starting note
We have been developing Jeju too recklessly. We can no longer give this land we love to people who are obsessed with development. They claim that development is inevitable for the construction of the new Jeju airport, but if we put our heads together, there are other ways to overcome this. This land is not only ours, but also the land of our descendants who will come after us. They have the right to envision and design it in a positive way, appropriate to the circumstances of their time, and live happily ever after. It should not be taken away from them for any reason. Perverse greed and distortion will one day boomerang back.