Wando-gun Indoor Garden Provides Healing, Relaxation, and Ornamental Benefits

Two Installations at Wando Coastal Passenger Terminal and Marine Bio Research Center

Indoor garden created at Wando Coastal Passenger Terminal (Photo by Wando-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil] Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Shin Woo-cheol) is attracting attention by creating a "Smart Garden," a wall-type indoor garden that provides a pleasant indoor environment and allows users to experience healing, relaxation, and ornamental effects, at two locations: the public facility Wando Coastal Passenger Terminal and the industrial complex facility Marine Bio Research Center.

According to Wando-gun on the 17th, the "Smart Garden" project utilizes idle spaces in public facilities to create indoor gardens, which are installed in a wall form to maximize harmony with the indoor space.

In particular, it consists of plants such as Table Palm, Epipremnum aureum (Skindapsus), and Spathiphyllum, which have excellent indoor air purification abilities and are easy to manage, providing a pleasant environment free from air pollutants such as fine dust in limited indoor spaces.

Additionally, through automated management technology, watering and growth lighting are controlled to facilitate plant growth and make maintenance convenient.

Meanwhile, according to research and development data on healing, relaxation, and ornamental gardens for urban residents conducted by the Korean Garden Design Association from 2017 to 2019, tension, depression, anger, fatigue, confusion, and stress levels noticeably decreased after experiencing the Smart Garden for 10 minutes.

Park Eun-jae, head of the Environment and Forestry Division, said, "The Smart Garden is drawing high satisfaction from users, and two more locations will be added next year," adding, "As the COVID-19 pandemic prolongs, the importance of daily life becomes even more urgent, so I hope people can experience mental and physical healing, even briefly, in the Smart Gardens created close to their living areas."

He also stated, "We will continue to expand indoor space infrastructure where gardens can be enjoyed throughout all four seasons."

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