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Back in the 1980's, long time, influential US Congressman Tom Bevill of Alabama, pushed through Congress a bill known as the Tenn-Tom Waterway bill (to build a canal connecting the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers in Mississippi and Alabama).

This waterway would create a shortcut for the barge traffic on the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers and their tributaries. It was a huge pork barrel project and virtually no one opposed it (save for some token environmentalists).

After a period of several years the canal was finished. Guess what? The barges never came (at least not in anywhere remotely near the numbers guaranteed by Congressman Bevill and the Army Corp of Engineers)!

On a more positive note, the canal has proven very beneficial for wealthy, retired pleasure boaters "looping' around the waterways of the eastern US.
The project was deemed important enough to be featured in National Geographic magazine in the late 1980's.

Koreans are known for their tendency to observe America's failures and successes and then act accordingly (they call it "benchmarking"). They would do well to note this monumental American failure in their planning.