Article: Roh Pledges to Make Jeju Island Special Administrative Region.

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Aug. 26 (Yonhap) -- President Roh Moo-hyun said Thursday that the government was taking measures to designate Jeju Island as a special administrative region to help the southern resort island develop into an economic, financial and tourism center in Northeast Asia."We are pursuing without a hitch the project to designate Jeju Island as a special administrative region," the president told a group of residents here who met to discuss ways to help develop the island.Roh first made the proposal in October last year so it could serve as key part of his administration's ambitious plan to develop the nation into an economic, tourism and ...

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