Where Does Gyeonggi Province Face the Most Regulations? ... Check at a Glance with Regulation Map

The areas facing the most severe regulations in Gyeonggi Province are seven municipalities in eastern Gyeonggi—Gwangju, Yangpyeong, Gapyeong, Yeoju, Icheon, Namyangju, and Yongin.

The seven municipalities, designated as the Paldang Special Measure Area in 1990, cover an area of 2,097㎢, accounting for 21% of the entire province's area and approximately 3.5 times the area of Seoul. In these regions, the installation of factories above a certain scale, fish farms, lodging facilities, restaurants, livestock facilities, and wastewater discharge facilities is prohibited.

Gyeonggi Province has issued a regulation map that allows residents to see at a glance the regulatory situation and details by region within the province.

On the 24th, the Gyeonggi Province Regulatory Reform Promotion Group announced the Gyeonggi Province Regulation Map on the province's website regulatory reform bulletin board and stated it will distribute the map starting from the 28th to the central government, the National Assembly, 31 cities and counties within the province, research institutes, and economic organizations.

The regulation map, created to inform the public of overlapping regulations in Gyeonggi Province, is a 40-page A4-sized document containing detailed information on four representative regulations—Capital Region Regulations, Paldang Watershed Regulations, Military Facility Protection Areas, and Development Restriction Zones—along with provincial status and applicable areas.

Looking at the main details, eastern Gyeonggi is designated as a Natural Conservation Zone (3,830.5㎢), Development Restriction Zone (1,175.3㎢), Water Source Protection Area (190.2㎢), Waterside Zone (145.3㎢), and Military Facility Protection Area (2,363㎢), in addition to the Paldang Special Measure Area.

In particular, Gwangju City, with its entire territory designated as Special Measure Area Zone Ⅰ and Natural Conservation Zone, additionally includes areas falling under Development Restriction Zones, Water Source Protection Areas, Waterside Zones, and Military Facility Protection Areas, making it subject to six regulations—the most in the entire province.

Gyeonggi Province estimates that various regulations are delaying approximately 2 trillion won in investments and the creation of 3,600 jobs across some 70 factories in the province.

Hong Yong-gun, director of the Gyeonggi Province Regulatory Reform Promotion Group, said, "Gyeonggi Province continues to make recommendations to the central government so that unreasonable regulations in underdeveloped areas such as Natural Conservation Zones and the border region in northern Gyeonggi can be improved rationally," and added, "We hope this regulation map will help people understand and empathize with the various regulatory issues applied to the province."