The National Conference of Local Government Heads.
One by one,each city and province's pending issuespassed across the screen.
Budget execution rates.Traffic congestion.Housing measures.Civil complaint statistics.
Familiar reports.
Some people took notes.Others glanced down at their phones.
The meeting moved along smoothly.
Then the screen at the front changed.
〈Agenda: Incheon Metropolitan City〉
The title didn't look special.
The explanation wasn't long either.
Incheon City planned to hosta nationwide local specialties expoat Truck City.
A brief silence.
Several gazes in the roomreturned to the screen.
The format of the report was ordinary,but the location was not.
Truck City.
Some lifted their heads.Others silently repeated the unfamiliar name.
The meeting itself remained routine,but that agenda item was not.
The conditions were clear.
Entry by truck only.
Each region must transportits local specialties directly.
Once a truck is built,all future participation fees are fully waived.
The room grew quiet.
When the numbers appeared,a few people picked up their pens.
New trucks:
3-pyeong truck: 60 million KRW6-pyeong truck: 65 million KRW
Using used trucks:
Vehicle purchased independently3-pyeong build cost: 10 million KRW6-pyeong build cost: 15 million KRW
Chief of production:Park Haeyoon, architectural designerfor the 3-pyeong house truck.
A question came up.
"What do you mean by 'free forever'?"
The Incheon City official answered.
"Once you build it,next year and the year after that,there's no participation fee."
Only then did a faint murmurspread through the room.
A county head spoke.
"It costs us hundreds of millionsjust to put up a highway billboard."
Someone else nodded.
"But this one moves."
"If farmers come directly,distribution steps are reduced."
"This isn't like boothsthat get torn down after an event."
There weren't many words,but the secretaries' hands moved quickly.
Notes piled up.
The meeting ended formally.
But the conversation continued in the hallway.
"Let's try building just one first."
"If it keeps getting used,it's not a loss."
That afternoon,an official cooperation noticewas sent nationwideunder the name of the Truck City TF.
One week.
Exactly one week later,applications flooded in.
Far beyond expectations.
Haeyoon put the papers downand took a breath.
Then she immediately started making calls.
"Gather people."
"We're starting right now."
Workers assembled.
Frames were raised.Welding sparks flew.The first steel plateswere laid on the ground.
The city had begunin a meeting room.
But its formwas being built on-site.
This time,it was not a city to be dismantled.
It wasa city that moved.