Taipei Times
Date: Oct 22, 2016
By: Lin Liang-sheng, Lu Yi-hsuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The reclamation of three parcels of government-owned land in South Korea shows that the Ministry of
A branch of Taiwan’s representative office in Seoul, South Korea, allegedly illegally occupied by a Chinese compatriot organization, is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Taipei Times
Foreign Affairs has taken previous Control Yuan corrective measures to heart, but the ministry should redouble its efforts, Control Yuan member Gau Fheng-shian (高鳳仙) said on Thursday.
The Control Yuan issued a corrective measures notice to the ministry in 2013 demanding that it and the Taipei Mission in South Korea make efforts to reclaim 27 parcels of land in South Korea which had allegedly been occupied illegally by Chinese compatriot organizations.
The Control Yuan report in 2013 said that the ministry had incomplete files on the original contracts with the Compatriots Service Committee, in effect the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) chapter in South Korea, which was leasing government-owned land in Seoul at no cost.
Earlier efforts by the mission in Seoul in March 2012 asking the committee to sign a contract as per the National Property Act (國有財產法) went unanswered, the Control Yuan report said. [FULL STORY]
