Plan to build Jeju Design Center falls through
Province to return \900m to Seoul


The provincial government is expected to scrap its plan to build a Jeju Design Center.


The province says the main problems were a lack of funding and a failure to secure a suitable location.


It will now return the roughly 900 million won it received in national funding for the construction.


The proposed Jeju Design Center was planned for inside the Citizen Welfare Town on the 10,000-square-meter plot that had been set aside for a new Jeju City Hall. It was expected to cost 20 billion won to build the 4,000-square-meter building.


The center was initially planned to be operated by the Korea Institute of Design Promotion. Jeju later changed its would-be status into a foundation run by the local government, and that led critics to question its profitability.


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제주특별자치도가 추진하려 했던 '제주디자인센터 건립' 사업이 무산될 전망입니다.


제주특별자치도는 '제주디자인센터' 운영에 따른 경제성이 부족하고 적절한 부지를 확보하지 못해
기본설계비로 편성된 국비 9억여원을 반납하기로 결정했습니다.


당초 제주디자인센터는 시민복지타운 내 시청사 부지 1만 제곱미터 부지에 사업비 200억원을 투입해 연면적 4천 제곱미터 규모로 조성할 계획이었습니다.


하지만 제주디자인센터의 운영방식이 당초 한국디자인진흥원 분원 형태에서 지방자치단체 산하의 재단형태로 변경돼 수익성 확보가 과제로 지적됐었습니다.