Busan City to Promote Addition of 4 Urban Wind Path Forests

Achieving Busan as a Leading Carbon Neutral City by 2050

100 Billion KRW Investment by 2025

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Busan City will invest 10 billion KRW from this year until 2025 to realize the ‘2050 Carbon Neutral Leading City Busan’ and improve citizens' living environment by additionally creating four urban wind path forests, including Sasang Station Cultural Forest.

The urban wind path forest creation project is a project that creates street forests, key green spaces, and connecting forests that draw cool and fresh air generated from forests inside and outside the city into the urban area to promote air circulation, aiming to improve air pollution and thermal environment.

Second project site Sasang Station Cultural Forest (Sasang Station Public Parking Lot Site).

Since 2019 until 2022, the city created urban wind path forests covering a total area of 25 hectares at 20 locations including Gwanmun-daero and World Cup-ro, and from this year until 2025, as the second phase project, it plans to create four urban wind path forests totaling 10 hectares: ▲ Sasang Station Cultural Forest (Sasang Station Public Parking Lot site) ▲ Geoje Wind Path Forest (Yangjeong-dong area) ▲ Forest for Peace Prayer (Daeyeon Arboretum Exhibition Garden area) ▲ Jeonggwan New Town Wind Path Forest (Sinjeonggwan-ro and Jeonggwan Jungang-ro area).

The city expects that the additional creation of urban wind path forests will connect urban green corridors, provide shade, improve scenery, and enhance the living environment of urban residents. Along with this, it is also anticipated to contribute to providing citizens with spaces for rest and culture.

Before and after the creation of the wind path.

Lee Geun-hee, Director of the Environmental Policy Office of the city, said, “The urban wind path forest project is promoted as a project selected by the Korea Forest Service’s fine dust reduction living SOC contest.” He added, “We will solidly create urban wind path forests to contribute to realizing the 2050 carbon neutral leading city and building a city of forests.” He also stated, “Our city will continue to implement various urban forest policy projects such as climate response urban forests and child-safe green forests, not only creating urban wind path forests but also improving urban environments like fine dust and urban heat islands.”

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