Jeju Aerospace Museum in the Seogwipo City, by 2013?

* Image source: same as the below link
Design of the Jeju Aerospace museum by Daerim Inc. Consortium

The Seogwipo Daily Newspaper reported on March 23 that the Daerim inc. consortium was selected as the company to build the ‘Aerospace museum’ in Seokwang-ri, Anduk-myeon. City of Seogwipo, Jeju Island.

*The Jeju Free International City Development Center announced on March 22, that the Daerim Inc. Consortium was finally selected before the Samsung C & T inc. consortium, as a result of the bid for the laying out & carrying out the construction of the aerospace museum.

The Daerim inc. consortium is composed of Daerim Industry (42%), Hanwha Construction (20%), Hwasung Industry(18%) and other two companies(each 10%)

* Wait. Daerim Inc. is one of the companies, with Samsung, who have involved in the Yongsan tragedy, and is to take charge of the 1st construction part of bay & harbor for the planned Jeju naval base. Hanwha is infamous for the production & export of the cluster bombs. (For more. click HERE)


The Korea Times has reported on May 5, 2009 as below:


“Tourist haven Jeju Island, famous for flowers, rocks and wind, could become a technology hub when an aerospace museum is completed by 2013.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs started construction at Shinhwa Park, Seogwipo, Tuesday with a planned investment of some 130 billion won ($100 million) in the project.

The ministry, the Air Force and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province have teamed up to bring the museum to fruition.

The 330,000-square-meter complex is to be composed of an ``experience center'' where people can try programs related to the space industry and view ``exhibitions'' showing basic information about air and space, which are still considered largely irrelevant to many people here.

Pilot training, simulators, entertainment facilities, training centers and a three-dimensional cinema and planetarium are to be built to attract the younger generation. A history museum focusing on Korean space studies and the Air Force will appeal to other age groups, the ministry said.

The museum surroundings will feature five theme parks where people can sit in aircraft exhibits.

Simulated Air Force combat, operational training and a military transport for soldiers are also to be exhibited.”


How the story is relevant to the Jeju naval base plan that the ROK government has bluffed out to finish by 2014? ? It is surely one of the attention points.


* Jeju Island is undergoing six major projects to become a ‘Global city’: Health Care Town, English Education City, Jeju Science Park, Resort-type Residential Complex, Myths and History Theme Park, and Seogwipo Tourism Port. With the exception of Health Care Town and English Education City, the four projects have already been initiated.(Architecture Now, May 18, 2009)

Photos Fwd: Peace action: No Cluster Bombs on Dec. 3

* All Image source: World Without War(South Korea). Click 1. 2. 3

* All Image source: World Without War(South Korea). Click 1. 2. 3

The black banners says, “South Korean government that produces and exports the cluster munitions,
join the Convention on Cluster Munitions: Stop Rain of Death, Cluster Bombs”

Some young peace activists in South Korea did a peace action on Dec. 3, the first anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions(CCM).

According to the Korean email on Dec. 10, sent by the organization, World Without War,

“ The cluster munitions have the high misfire rate and most of their victims are civilians thus the international society with 94 nations participating signed the agreement in Oslo on Dec. 8, 2008 to prevent the humanitarian damage by them. However, the South Korea that produces and exports the Cluster Munitions has not participated in the agreement. Therefore, we decided to do the campaign to inform those facts on the 1st anniversary of the CCM."
(unofficial translation)

The representing corporations to produce and export the Cluster Munitions in South Korea are Hanwa and Poonsan, according to the activists.


* Related blog

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/11/poster-fwd-no-cluster-munitions-on-dec.html
Poster Fwd: No Cluster Munitions on Dec. 3, 2009

Poster Fwd: No Cluster Munitions on Dec. 3, 2009

* Poster forwarded from Jieun(Peace and Disarmament Center, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD) on Nov. 23, 2009



A Korean group called, “Weapon Zero (무기 제로팀)” calls the protest against the Cluster Munitions on Dec. 3, the first anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The convention ‘was adopted in Dublin by 107 states on 30 May 2008 and signed on 3 December the same year’. ‘The Convention enter[ed] into force six months after the 30th state has submitted its instrument of ratification, and is open for ratifications and signature at the United Nations headquarters in New York.’ See the Convention website.

The poster urges the South Korea government who did not sign the convention yet to immediately sign it. The nations who did not sign yet include the United States, China, Russia who are the main product and use nations of cluster munitions. The South Korea (Hanwha Co, Poongsan Co.) is said one of the most active countries to produce the Cluster Munitions in Asia, with China. About 34 countries are heard to produce the cluster bombs. See the signatory countries.

Text Fwd: S. Korea to Sell Multiple Rocket Launchers to Jordan

Korea times
07-29-2009 21:56
S. Korea to Sell Multiple Rocket Launchers to Jordan
By Jung Sung-ki
Staff Reporter

South Korea's Hanhwa Corporation will export about 20 lightweight 70mm multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to Jordan, according to officials at the company and the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), Wednesday.

A contract will be signed in August, they said.

Under the proposed contract, Hanwha will help Jordan develop two prototypes of the mid-sized rocket launcher with technology transfer and begin production after two years of trials.

``Hanwha will transfer key MLRS technologies regarding a launch pad, fire-and-control system and navigation equipment to Jordan under the deal," said a DAPA official, who declined to comment on the exact scale of the deal.

Hanwha is also negotiating with Libya on the export of the 70mm MLRS, he added.

Designed for firepower support for infantry regiments, it has a range of 8 kilometers and can fire up to 40 rockets within 10 minutes.

The company developed the system in 2000. It has already undergone trials with the South Korean Army, but has yet to be deployed in the field.

Hanwha has already produced and deployed 130mm (36-round) MLRS with the Army since the early 1980s.

In April, DAPA approved a plan to develop an indigenous 65-kilometer-range 230mm MLRS by 2013 to replace the 130mm MLRS fleet with a range of 36 kilometers and improve the Army's counter-artillery capability against North Korea.

Hanwha will take charge of system integration and build guided and non-guided rockets, while Doosan DST will build the launch pad and vehicle, the agency said.

gallantjung@koreatimes.co.kr