Sunchon-si Dosadong, Citizen Garden Promotion Team Sweats with Gardening Volunteer Work in Urban Vacant Lots

Building brick walls in neglected unsanitary idle spaces to plant flowers and add color

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] The Dosadong Citizen Garden Promotion Team announced on the 24th that they carried out gardening volunteer activities in an abandoned leftover idle space that was damaging the urban landscape within the designated village in Dosadong, Suncheon City.

With the participation of about 20 members of the Dosadong Citizen Garden Promotion Team, plant boxes made of colored bricks were installed in the leftover space abandoned in the designated village, flowers were planted, and the existing circular benches were beautifully painted, creating a more pleasant and neat urban resting place.

Ms. Kang Mi-sook of the Dosadong Citizen Garden Promotion Team, who led the entire process from site selection to design planning and environmental maintenance, said, “A place that had been neglected for a long time has been newly transformed into a pleasant resting place with the hands of the volunteer members of the Citizen Garden Promotion Team. I hope many citizens use it comfortably and that it develops into a small garden that everyone takes ownership of and cultivates together.”

The Citizen Garden Promotion Team plans to continue gardening volunteer activities such as creating small gardens in idle spaces including street gardens to be established within Dosadong next year, habitual waste dumping sites, and vulnerable roadside areas, playing a role as promoters to spread garden culture in daily life to foster a successful atmosphere for the 2023 Suncheonman International Garden Expo.

A Dosadong official said, “We hope that exemplary activities like these, where citizens voluntarily participate and lead, will spread further, and we deeply thank all the volunteer members of the Citizen Garden Promotion Team who participated despite the cold weather.”

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