“I think I really have the constitution to hold out.” He smiled, brushing back his long hair that reached down to his chest. His bright complexion meant that he could endure it. It has been 253 days since he began his protest by pitching a tent under the Handuri Bridge upstream of Sejongbo and sleeping outside in the wind and rain. It is difficult to find any traces of the hardships he must have endured during the four seasons that have passed in the tent that is about six square meters in size. No, the tent no longer seemed like a special place to him. It was just an everyday space. “I didn’t fire a gun... Yoon Seok-yeol’s Ministry of Environment has been in a state of civil war for two and a half years.” This is the story of Lim Do-hoon, the situation room director of the Geumgang, Nakdonggang, Yeongsan River Citizens’ Action for the Demolition of the Dam (Citizens’ Action for the Demolition of the Dam) and the head of the ecology team at the Daejeon-Chungnam Green Union, whom we met at the tent protest site of Sejongbo on the 7th. Sweet potatoes were ripening on the red-hot stove. Every time the wind blew, the tent swayed in its entirety. On the day when the first attempt to arrest Yoon Seok-yeol was virtually aborted, the interview with Director Lim naturally began with a discussion of martial law. “I watched a video of the leader of the rebellion, Yoon Seok-yeol, declaring martial law in the tent. At first, I thought it was fake. How dare he point a gun at the people? I couldn’t sleep because I was so angry. But when I think about it, Yoon Seok-yeol’s Ministry of Environment was in a state of civil war for two and a half years. They didn’t take up arms, but they destroyed all the democratic procedures and decisions made before, including the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project.” As Director Lim said, under the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, the Ministry of Environment immediately dismantled the decision to dam the Geumgang and Yeongsan Rivers. The Moon Jae-in administration opened the sluice gates of five dams and conducted scientific monitoring over the course of four years. The National Water Management Committee held more than 57 meetings from September 2019 to decide on measures such as the dismantling of the Sejong Dam. The Yoon Seok-yeol administration overturned this decision in just 15 days. Director Lim said, “Not only that, the Ministry of Environment has been easing various environmental regulations to make businesses full, and has not hesitated to push forward development projects that put lives at risk, such as the Seorak Mountain cable car and the Saemangeum and Gadeokdo new airports.” He added, “This is why environmental activists began to mockingly say, ‘The Ministry of Environment has been in a state of civil war’ after martial law was declared.” Related article “The Ministry of Environment is already in a state of civil war... Sejongbo is the front line of impeachment” #Sejongbo #LimDoHoon #Citizens’ActionToRemoveBo #MartialLaw #Impeachment