Gwangju Seo-gu Completes 'Community-Oriented Garden Creation Project'

Published 20 Dec.2022 14:37(KST)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shin Dong-ho] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 20th that it has completed the ‘Life-Integrated Garden Creation Project’ promoted to create a 2045 carbon-neutral city on the 19th.

The ‘Life-Integrated Garden Project’ is a project selected through a contest under the Green New Deal project led by the Korea Forest Service, aiming to expand green spaces in residents' daily lives, focusing on multi-use facilities.

Seo-gu invested a total project cost of 930 million KRW to create an indoor garden on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the health center and an outdoor garden in the plaza in front of the district office to provide a pleasant resting space for visitors and employees.

The indoor garden at the health center installed wall greening and plant benches in the reception and waiting areas mainly used by civil petitioners, planting about 4,300 air-purifying plants of 15 species including Plectranthus amboinicus, and connected 49 landscape lights and an automatic watering system to create a space where the planted plants can grow healthily indoors.

Also, in the plaza in front of Seo-gu Office, a wall fountain, stream facilities, and seating walls were installed, and about 3,700 trees and herbaceous plants of 64 species including Acer palmatum were planted to allow visitors to enjoy a beautiful garden throughout the four seasons.

A Seo-gu official said, “We hope that the garden with rocks, greenery, and streams will become a healing space where residents visiting the district office and health center can rest their tired bodies and minds,” and added, “We will continue to discover and expand garden projects closely related to residents' lives.”