Gwangju Dong-gu 'Yesul-ui Geori' Road Maintenance Completed

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Im Taek) announced on the 16th that it has completed road maintenance in the Gung-dong 'Art Street' area, which began in September.

Dong-gu invested a total project cost of about 500 million KRW to maintain a section of approximately 310 meters from the East Police Station intersection to Jungang-ro over four months.

The main project details include ▲repairing joints of crushed stone in the center lane of the road ▲replacing clay blocks on both sidewalks with granite slabs ▲maintenance of various pedestrian environment obstacles.

With this maintenance, Dong-gu achieved effects such as securing flatness in damaged and uneven road sections, and improving safety and convenience for pedestrians by removing and rearranging various sculptures, benches, and flowerpots that had been disorderly scattered, thereby also enhancing the urban aesthetics of Art Street.

Dong-gu plans to continue close consultations with related organizations to promptly maintain by removing and relocating KEPCO distribution boxes and public telephone facilities.

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, “With the completion of road maintenance on Art Street, it has transformed into a street where anyone wants to walk,” and added, “We hope citizens will walk through Gwangju’s representative cultural and artistic street and feel the changes themselves.”

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