Pohang City Envisions the Future of Green City Pohang with Youth! ... 'Green Space Management' Forum Held

Seeking the Future Vision of Pohang as a 'Green City Where Anyone Wants to Stay' with Local Youth

Drawing the Future of Green City Pohang Together with Youth!

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Pohang City will hold the ‘Pohang Greenway Youth Forum’ on the 25th at the city hall's main conference room.

This forum, themed ‘Youth Drawing the Green Future of the City,’ aims to strengthen youth participation awareness in the city’s green space policies. Students from policy clubs of four middle and high schools will participate, presenting topics and engaging in discussions on the management plans for green spaces.

Each school’s policy club is a group that independently expresses their thoughts and improvement activities on social issues in daily life and local government policies from a youth perspective. At this forum, they will each present on the theme of ‘Problems and Management Directions of Pohang Railway Forest and Songdo Pine Grove,’ which are frequently used by citizens.

In the second part of the event, Professor Juil Kim from Handong University’s Department of Spatial Environment Systems will serve as the moderator. Panelists including Lee Kwan, Executive Director of Gyeongbuk Life Forest, Vice Principal Hyunok Park of Ocheon Elementary School, Director Yongchan Yoon of Jeong Landscape Architecture Office, and Lee Namyeop, representative of cultural heritage activist group F5, experts in urban planning, landscaping, youth, and culture, will participate in a discussion with youth on the future vision of Pohang where nature and culture harmonize.

A city official stated, “While the GreenWay project has begun to show results in quantitatively expanding green spaces, there are still many shortcomings in the management of these spaces. We plan to recognize problems from the perspective of Pohang’s future generation, the youth, find improvement directions, and reflect them in green space policies.”

Pohang City has been promoting the GreenWay project since 2016 to create a green ecological city where people and nature coexist. The 9.3 km Pohang Railway Forest, the coastal trail along Yeongil Bay, and the Haedo urban forest, a large garden in the city center, have received great responses from citizens.

In the second half of this year, various contents that citizens from different demographics can participate in, such as the GreenWay Academy, humanities talk concerts, and garden academies, are planned to be implemented.

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