Table 5.
Details of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's application for the appropriation of urban planning parks for other purposes in August 1969 (unit: m²)

Reason to releases the parks	Existing area	Number of parks applied	Area of parks applied
Apartment construction	6,696,267	15	457,494 (6.8%)
Expanding schools	9,803,225	10	249,639 (2.5%)
Securing special accounting property of central government	4,775,784	11	219,825 (4.6%)
Securing Seoul’s finances	1,613,074	13	121,435 (7.5%)
Etc.	39,805,231	30	3,480,600 (8.7%)
Total	62,693,581	79	4,528,993 (7.2%)