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| | U.S. Mayor Article | Mayor Tae-Hwan Kim Highlights Sustainability in Action in Jeju City, Korea: "Saving a River, ... |
 | | Jeju City Mayor Tae-Hwan Kim, who led the fight to "save the river and save the city," described how his city government withstood criticism and political pressure to uncover and restore the river and its surroundings. |
 | | Its cost was equivalent to 17 percent of the city's annual budget, and "took six years, 12,000 people, and 4,547 pieces of heavy equipment" to do the job, completed in May 2002," the mayor said. |
 | | The city government under Kim's leadership undertook this costly and courageous project because of its belief in the importance of the river as a cultural, historic, and environmentally important landmark. |
| www.usmayors.org /uscm/us_mayor_newspaper/documents/06_23_03/Kim.asp (638 words) |
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