By Bae Ji-sook

Staff Reporter

A university is waging a campaign to relocate power transmission towers near its mountainous campus, saying the towers are eyesores and a health hazard.

The drive started after KEPCO allegedly changed construction of the towers from a nearby mountain tract under pressure from one of President Lee Myung-bak's close friends, to the mountain range near Chongshin University in Yangji, Gyeonggi Province.

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