Seoul City Awards '2022 Landscape Award and Green City Award' to 20 Teams for Outstanding Landscaping Spaces

Award Ceremony Held at Seoul City Hall on the 22nd... Four Teams Receive the 'Seoul Metropolitan Government Landscape Award'
'Seoul Metropolitan Government Green City Award' Recognizing Citizen-Led Outstanding Greening Cases

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] On the 22nd, the Seoul Metropolitan Government held the '2022 Seoul Metropolitan City Landscape Award and Green City Award' ceremony at the Seoul City Hall Multipurpose Hall and announced that awards were given to four outstanding landscaping spaces and 20 citizen-led excellent greening cases.

At the awards ceremony, the 'Seoul Metropolitan City Landscape Award,' which selects and awards excellent landscaping spaces in the public and private sectors within Seoul, and the 'Seoul Metropolitan City Green City Award,' which discovers and awards excellent greening cases where citizens plant and cultivate flowers and trees around their living environment, were presented.

The 'Seoul Metropolitan City Landscape Award' is a newly launched award aimed at promoting the improvement of Seoul's urban landscape and the development of the landscaping field. It was established to encourage healthy competition among experts participating in landscaping projects and to enhance the level of greenery in Seoul.

Seoul selected a total of four winners for the '2022 Seoul Metropolitan City Landscape Award,' including one Grand Prize, one Excellence Award, and two Merit Awards. The Grand Prize was awarded to ▲DIGICO GARDEN (Jongno-gu), the Excellence Award to ▲Bulgamsan Healing Town (Nowon-gu), and the Merit Awards to ▲Timework Myeongdong Shared Garden (Jung-gu) and ▲Small Botanical Garden Village and Little Plant Exploration Team (Gangseo-gu).

Since its inception in 2013, the 'Seoul Metropolitan City Green City Award' has aimed to discover and award excellent greening cases where citizens voluntarily plant and cultivate flowers and trees around neighborhoods (alleyways and small spaces), private and communal housing (apartments), and commercial areas throughout Seoul. This initiative seeks to boost citizens' pride and spread garden culture.

A total of 20 teams were selected as winners of the '2022 Seoul Metropolitan City Green City Award.' Recipients of the Grand Prize (1), Excellence Awards (2), Merit Awards (3), Encouragement Awards (5), and Sprout Awards (9) were presented with certificates, prize money, and commemorative plaques.

At the ceremony, awards were also presented for the 'Citizen Garden Artist Stepping Stone Project.' This citizen participation project aimed to improve the urban environment by creating gardens in small urban spaces and to cultivate professionals in the gardening field. Among the 2022 participating teams, one Grand Prize, one Excellence Award, one Merit Award, and two Encouragement Awards were selected and given certificates and prize money.

Yoo Young-bong, Director of the Green City and Leisure Bureau, stated, “Through the Landscape Award and Green City Award, we were able to confirm the passion and efforts of experts and citizens to make our living spaces in Seoul more beautiful and livable.” He added, “We will continue to actively discover and select such excellent cases that color Seoul green and create a dignified green city Seoul.”

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