[Reporting Y] "Does non-members make donations?"... "Bongi Kim Sun-dal" at a public park golf course.

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Park Golf, where the elderly play golf in the park, is gaining huge popularity.

However, some clubs are making noise pretending to be owners at public park golf courses.

Reporter Y and Kim Min-sung covered the report.

[Reporter]
The Sanggwan Park Golf Course in Wanju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, was built in 2013 with an 18-hole scale.

It's a free public facility, but anyway, there are phrases and rules that distinguish club members from non-club members.

As such, the de facto occupation of this public facility is a club with 800 members.

When I ask how to use the facility, they say it's a paid membership system and ask me to pay if I'm going to play it as a non-member.

[Park Golf Club President: How much is the daily admission fee?] Rather than the admission fee, we paid 2,000 won per day for non-members..]

When I went there in person, I actually operated a donation box, that is, a charge storage box.

These days, we have blocked outsiders from using the grass as an excuse to protect the grass in autumn.

So-called "non-members," ordinary citizens, and even disabled golfers who were selected to represent Jeonbuk Province are being kicked out of the facility.

[An official from the Jeonbuk Self-Governing Province Disabled Golf Association: They claim that it's their stadium. Some presidents and executives are elected and managed by them.

Earlier this year, the club even occupied the country's land, which is adjacent to the park golf course, and managed by the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, without permission to create nine more holes.

From here, this is the third course of the park golf course. It's an illegal facility that was arbitrarily created on public land and, to put it simply, not even on the map.

It is a highly illegal act of privatizing public facilities, which club officials argue is just for facility management.

[Park Golf Club President: We shave (the grass) almost once a week in the summer, and we buy and sharpen (the lawn mower) with our membership fee.]

As it became controversial, the local government decided to restrain unfair behavior sooner or later.

[An official from Wanju County Office in North Jeolla Province: We will let them know in advance whether their actions are illegal and notify them to deal with all of them by the end of the year]

A growing number of local governments are charging public park golf courses due to similar problems.

The noise in the park golf world seems to be more pronounced due to some of the crooked ownership in the trend of establishing itself as a popular life sport.

I'm Kim Minsung of YTN.