It would actually be better if Yeosu was embarrassed by this opportunity and people stopped coming

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As a local resident, seeing the local elites and construction companies repeatedly pocketing kickbacks has been going on for decades.
People come here solely for the ocean, line up for strawberry mochi, and follow repertoires that have nothing to do with actual Yeosu tourism, just to make money off outsiders.
The "Romantic Pocha" (street food stalls) are overpriced, and because of that, even the stalls in Yeondung-dong that hipsters and locals used to visit have become just as overpriced and terrible.
They indiscriminately destroy the natural environment in Dolsan to build nothing but pensions and cafes, which causes water pollution and harms the oyster farming and fishing industries.
It is just a repeating vicious cycle, so I hope tourists stop coming to Yeosu altogether through this incident. The timing is perfect.
In any case, the actual residents of Yeosu receive almost zero income or benefits from the tourism industry.
In the neighboring town of Suncheon, they gave 100,000 KRW back to citizens from the actual profits of the Suncheonman International Garden Expo (not from taxes).
I hope everything fails so that the cost of living—which is already high because they charge so much—improves, and the actual quality of tourism naturally gets better.