Camp Long, Camp Eagle, Parts of Camp Market, and Shea Range are Finally Returned to South Korea

It has been nearly a decade since these bases were closed and they have finally been handed over to the South Korean government:

The United States on Wednesday returned four of its military bases in South Korea in a decision to end a yearslong delay caused by differences on decontamination procedures and to allay worries over the adverse impact of the delay on regional development schemes.

South Korea and the U.S. also initiated the long-awaited return process for the Yongsan Garrison in central Seoul, once home to the headquarters of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), to ensure that a mega project to establish a national park there proceeds as scheduled.

The four returned bases are Camps Eagle and Long in Wonju, 130 kilometers east of Seoul; parcels of Camp Market in Bupyeong, just west of the capital; and the Shea Range parcel at Camp Hovey in Dongducheon, just north of Seoul. They were already closed between 2009 and 2011.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but USFK made no concessions on the environmental clean up concerns that South Korea keeps making. The article speculates that the environmental clean up costs for the U.S. bases may be something they try to tie to the ongoing cost sharing negotiations.

A strategy they could use is that the cleanup of the closed out U.S. bases costs X amount of money to the ROK government and thus should lower the amount of money that the U.S. government is saying Seoul should pay each year.