S. Korea to spend US$ 620,000 on holding inter-Korean railway, road ceremony next week

  • 5 years ago
정부, 철도•도로 연결 및 현대화 착공식에 7억 소요... "착수식으로 추진"

Seoul plans to spend over 620-thousand U.S. dollars from its inter-Korean Cooperation Fund... on the groundbreaking ceremony for linking and modernizing inter-Korean railways and roads.
The event is scheduled for December 26th... at Panmun station, just north of the border,... and is to be attended by 100 officials each from South and North Korea.
Despite what the ceremony is being called, the two Koreas won't actually break ground.
The event is being held largely for its symbolic meaning,... and actual construction will begin in accordance with progress in Pyeongyang's denuclearization and waivers on international sanctions.

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