Governor Lee Cheol-woo of Gyeongsangbuk-do / Yonhap News, ‘Governor Lee Cheol-woo of Gyeongsangbuk-do has requested the government’s mediation on the TK administrative integration.’,
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, ‘Gyeongsangbuk-do announced that the governor met with Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min and Chairman Woo Dong-gi of the Local Government Development Institute in Sejong on the 28th, requesting the government to prepare a mediation proposal.’,
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, ‘Minister Lee and Chairman Woo had promised to actively support the Daegu-Gyeongbuk administrative integration in a four-party meeting with the Mayor of Daegu and the Governor of Gyeongsangbuk-do in June.’,
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, ‘At the meeting with the two individuals, Governor Lee mentioned, “It is difficult for Gyeongsangbuk-do to accept a reduction in the authority of cities and counties, and Daegu has concerns regarding regional metropolitan administrative management issues,” and requested, “Please analyze the contents of both sides and create a new administrative system.”‘,
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, ‘Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do have been actively promoting administrative integration with the goal of integration by 2026 since May, but they have not been able to narrow their differences, and on the 27th, Mayor Hong Joon-pyo of Daegu formally announced the dissolution of integration.’]