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, . , . . . . Ioannis Kavouras . . . . 2: . Last 12 months a former district head of Gangseo-gu (), the district that accommodates Gadeokdo, broke ranks publicly: former Gangseo district chief Noh Gi-tae () – who served as Busan Port Authority president and twice as district head, initially elected under the Saenuri Party then re-elected as a Democrat – held a press convention at the Busan metropolis council saying the Gadeokdo airport plan was being pushed via hastily for purely political reasons, that he had raised considerations by multiple channels but they were dismissed for political reasons, and that now is the time to talk the truth.

The post-mortem published by the town itself is unusually candid about who is to blame. The Namuwiki entry on Busan summarizes the trajectory: within the pivot to tourism, the city failed to attend to its remaining manufacturing base, and west-Busan manufacturing expanded outward to Gimhae and Yangsan, and as far as Chungcheong and the capital area, leaving Busan youth with only service-sector jobs other than finance and pushing them semi-forcibly toward the capital region. Namuwikis entry on Park is sharper: across 4 years of administration there were no visible achievements, and after a very powerful objective – the 2030 Busan Expo bid – was misplaced by a fair bigger margin to Riyadh than anticipated, a positive analysis was unimaginable, with negative scores dominant in each generation besides these of their 60s-70s. The criticisms that recur are youth outflow not stopped and weak company attraction. The Namuwiki population entry confirms the pattern: from 1995 to 2020, Gimhae and Yangsan added 270,000 and 190,000 residents respectively, so the Busan metropolitan areas population is essentially unchanged – Busan correct shrank, satellites in Gyeongnam grew.