As this Thursday will mark ten years since the completion of the 33-point-nine kilometer Saemangeum seawall in North Jeolla Province, South Korean officials say 55 percent of the area has been transformed into land.

At the time the seawall was completed in 2006, most of the area of some 409 square kilometers within the wall was under water. Ten years later, nearly 160 square kilometers of 291 square kilometers of the total lot inside the seawall, excluding a freshwater lake, transformed to land.
 
The transformation resulted from continuous reclamation and construction work to prevent water infiltration in a bid to create an industrial complex and farmlands.
 
Out of the nine sectors in the Saemangeum Industrial Complex, reclamation has been completed for sectors one and two. Six companies have entered into the two sectors.
 
The Korea Rural Community Corporation, which is charged with the reclamation work, plans to complete such work for all sectors in the complex by 2020.