Es Possible?

My current location of Gunsan City, South Korea has about 100,000 people in it, I believe.  That's quite a bit different that when my friend was station here in 1957.  And the city officials are apparently doing a great job of expanding and bringing in business.

One of the first things I saw (after the first week of rain, I mean) from the tower was a gray line on the sea's horizon.  It was explained to me that the city built a 20 mile seawall (one of the largest in the world) and then started pumping out the trapped seawater.  Proposals for the future land mass have ranged from farmland to industrial, tourist, and environmental development to another airport (which Gunsan would need in order to attract big business and tourism).

Unfortunately, the base officials have rejected a request to fly international flights into Kunsan Air Base due to security risks.  But even if Gunsan managed to build another airport within the "reclaimed" sea-land it would seriously impact the training and mission here.  It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. 

Meanwhile, the beach just outside the base fence line grows bigger.

You can see the our airfield south east of the largest resevoir in the top half of the picture.

Some more information can be found here and here.