One Month Until National Sports Festival... Equestrian Venue Still Under Construction

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With the National Sports Festival in Jeju just over a month away, construction on the auxiliary facilities for the equestrian venue is still not finished. Although the completion date has been postponed twice, the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province stated that the work will be completed without any disruptions before the competition begins.

This is reported by Kwon Min-ji from JIBS.

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This is the Jeju Equestrian Venue, where the equestrian events of the National Sports Festival will take place.

Construction materials are scattered around in disorder everywhere, and the structural frames of the buildings remain exposed.

With about a month left until the festival, construction is still in full swing.

While the main arena has been completed, work on auxiliary facilities such as the stables has only reached around 85%.

The Jeju provincial government initially announced that the equestrian venue construction would wrap up on June 30.

After the completion date was pushed back once to the end of August, it was delayed yet again to the 18th of this month.

The equestrian events for the National Sports Festival are scheduled to be held from the 16th to the 18th of next month.

Construction is still ongoing just about a month before the official matches.

Concerns are growing because, during the Jeju National Sports Festival 12 years ago, the events had to be held in Incheon due to inadequate equestrian facilities within the province.

Explaining the delay in construction, the provincial government stated that it was due to difficulties in securing funds.

Currently, the approximately 5 billion won construction cost for the equestrian venue is being shared by the Jeju provincial government and Jeju National University.

[Kim Dong-ok / Head of the Sports Festival Facilities Team, National Sports Festival Planning Division, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province: "We will finally complete the expansion project for the Jeju National University equestrian venue by September 18. As this is the first sports festival to be held in Jeju in 12 years, we will ensure that athletes can compete in a safe and comfortable environment..."]

However, as it has been found that the construction period agreed upon in documents between the provincial government and the contractor runs until mid-October, concerns persist over whether the construction schedule set by the provincial government will be properly met.

(Camera footage by Oh Il-ryung, JIBS)

Kwon Min-ji, JIBS
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