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 Admist the terror of the new Coronavirus(nCoV), can Jeju fire festival be held this year?

 The answer will be given in this week, Jeju Econmy, local internet newspaer on Monday reported.

 Many events have been cancelled after Korea had many confirmed patients of the virus. Jeju Special Self-governing Provincial Office(Jeju) is considering postponing the festival as specialists estimated it may take a few months untill all settles down.

 But, Jeju City, which is the organizer, is more into holding to the plan that it is held March 12~15. They have been spotted working procedures for making it happen like drafting security plan out, joint meeting, the final briefing, etc.

 A city officer replied "It isn't confired, yet, we are doing what we can do thinking that it will he held. The final call will be made this week." to the medium.

 However, many expect it will get green light as Jeju keeps its 'coronavirus-free' status with neither confirmed nor quarantiend patient untill January 9th, the newspaper emphasized.

 Jeju Fire Festival, which was scheduled for March 12~15, has been postponed in order to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, Jeju Tourism Organization(JTO) on Tuesday announced.

 It added the event may be canceled depending on the situation.

 Jeju has already seen a lot of calling offs, including the regular concert of Jeju Philharmonic Orchestra(Feb. 7), 2020 Winter Reading Camp of the Library of Miracle(Feb. 7~8), and the 36th Anniversary Ceremony of Woodang Library(Feb. 15~16).

 Temporarily put off are sport events like the 11th Tamna Cup National Primary School Baseball Championships(Feb. 1~8), 2020 Jeju Peace National Taekwondo Championships and the 4th Taekwondo Poomsae Championships(Feb. 13~23), the 26th Governor's Flag Sports for All Promotion Provincial Tennis Championshops(Feb. 29), the 15th National Outstanding High School Winter League Baseball Championships(mid Feb.), the 26th National Middle School Baseball Championships(mid Feb.), the 47th Governor's Flag Badminton Championships(Mar. 7~8), etc. 2020 Chilsipri Spring National Youth Football League Championships(Feb. 10~16) was called off.

Jeju Free International City Development Centre(JDC) may have found an exit from the legal case with Berjaya Jeju Resort(BJR), Jejueconomy, a local internet newspaper, on Monday, reported.

According to the article, Seoul Central District Court postponed the due adjudication to see both of the parties can make a deal out as much as 350 billion KRW(appx. 310m US$). It was supposed to make the final conclusion on February 6th.

This is drawn out after JDC and BJR met for an agreement. Moon Daerim, the CEO of JDC made a visit to Berjaya Corporation Bhd in Malaysia last December. He is said to have met Vincent Tan, the executive chairman, and exchanged ways to figure the conflict out. They agreed to examine them to minimize the possible damages to the both organizations and will proceed more negotiations.

The weak side is that BJR estimated its loss on the resort project as much as over 4 trillion KRW(appx. 36 bi. US$), which may lead to additional lawsuits. To avoid it, JDC has been ceaselessly contacting landowners, Jejueconomy added.

source: http://www.jejueconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=11543