Yeom Tae-young: "Pursuing Suwon Asbestos-Zero Project"

○…Yeom Tae-young, Democratic Party preliminary candidate for Suwon Mayor, announced the 'Suwon Asbestos-Zero Project' pledge on the 16th. Candidate Yeom prepared the pledge to free residents from asbestos threatening public health at the municipal government level, amid concerns raised by Suwon civil society organizations that carcinogenic asbestos could be exposed during the demolition process of the KCC Suwon plant.

The 'Suwon Asbestos-Zero Project' systematically manages asbestos from the preliminary investigation stage through demolition work and subsequent monitoring of demolition debris and air quality for large-scale demolition zones including redevelopment, reconstruction, and relocation sites. To this end, he announced major policies including ▲operating a citizen environmental monitoring committee and providing citizen asbestos education with internet disclosure ▲establishing an asbestos map ▲enacting asbestos safety management ordinances ▲establishing asbestos safety measures for relocation sites and redevelopment areas.

Yeom Tae-young, preliminary candidate for Suwon Mayor, stated, "Problems such as asbestos exposure at the KCC Suwon plant must not happen again," and explained, "Since asbestos issues are directly linked to citizens' health, if elected as mayor, I will enact asbestos safety management ordinances and establish asbestos safety measures at the municipal level so that Suwon citizens can have peace of mind."