HISTORY
“I particularly enjoyed it when there was not a lot of people around, like early in the morning or at weekends, and I could ride a jeep around the site and see what progress was being made. Nobody was more aware of what was going on, on the construction site, than me.”
He even looks back at his time on the construction site with
some affection, claiming that his “home” was sheltered by trees and even had a little pond.
Kang adds: “It is true that to spend 24 hours a day at your place of work is quite demanding, but as I said, I had my little place to escape to and I also actually had a lot of fun there. You cannot, for example, imagine how much fun I had driving a jeep at dawn. “I also got all my friends and family to come to Yeongjong Island to visit me at weekends, and all these years later they remember their visits with great fondness.”
Kang first became involved in the project in 1989 when he was invited by South Korea’s Minister of Transport to look at a number of possible sites identified for Seoul’s new airport. At the time he was effectively the No.3 in the Ministry of
Transport responsible for national planning projects, and when Incheon was chosen as the site of the new gateway in June 1990, he was appointed head of the taskforce charged with overseeing its development.
In the following years legislation was passed for the
airport’s construction, a master plan was drawn up and the design of the main terminal building finalised by an international design team comprising Fentress Architects, McClier Aviation Group, USA, and four Korean firms (Baum, Heerim, Junglim and Wondoshi) under the banner of the BHJW alliance.
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