Global issue - South Korea wetlands example

Here's a good example of the challenges to the environment internationally. Can you believe that in this day and age where we know so much about the ecological, water quality, and other benefits of wetlands that governments, including our own would fund and tout the benefits of a project as environmentally destructive as this one:
http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf020415.htm
They even have the nerve to name it intelligent city and spin wetland destruction as "land reclamation".
Saner minds in South Korea see how arrogant and insipid these projects are, but they are helpless against governments not held accountable:
http://www.surfbirds.com/mb/trips/saemankeum-0902.html
http://www.waddensea-secretariat.org/news/publications/Wsnl/Wsnl99-1/articles/04-moores.pdf