A petition to the Blue House demanding the cancellation of a planned Chinese cultural town in Gangwon has amassed a record number of signatures, forcing the provincial government to deny that it is building an immigrant community –– or a modern Chinatown.
 
Titled “Scrap the Chinatown Construction in Gangwon,” the petition opposed the creation of the Korea-China Cultural Tourism Town, a 1.2 million-square-meter (296 acres) Chinese culture-themed development in Hongcheon, asking, “Why do we need a Little China in Korea?”


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