Eco-friendly 'Public Golf Course' Established in Geumgo-dong, Daejeon

An eco-friendly public golf course will be established in Geumgo-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon.

On the 26th, Daejeon City announced the "Eco-friendly Golf Course Development Plan" with this content.

Lee Jang-woo, Mayor of Daejeon, is announcing the 'Eco-friendly Golf Course Development Plan' in Geumgo-dong at Daejeon City Hall on the 27th. Photo by Daejeon City

The development plan includes the priority construction of an eco-friendly public golf course with 18 holes + α (9 holes) in the Geumgo-dong area of Yuseong-gu, and the installation of community sports facilities and solar power generation facilities in line with the availability of the first landfill site after its closure.

The eco-friendly public golf course will be built on a 1.21 million square meter (360,000 pyeong) site between the first and second landfill sites and the planned sewage treatment plant in Geumgo-dong, Yuseong-gu, with a total project cost of 150 billion KRW, to be completed by 2027.

The size of the golf course will be determined according to the review by the Central Urban Planning Committee for Grade 2 environmental evaluation areas, and after completion, it will be operated as a public (non-membership) facility.

In particular, the city plans to prioritize hiring local residents during golf course operations and reinvest part of the operating profits into environmental improvement projects within Geumgo-dong.

The city’s plan is to install community sports facilities and a solar power generation facility (5.8MW capacity) on the first landfill site, which is scheduled to close by the end of 2025.

Geumgo-dong has seen the establishment of the first landfill site in 1996, along with the addition of a food waste recycling facility, a bioenergy center, and an environmental energy complex town, and is currently facing the relocation of the second landfill site and sewage treatment plant.

With environmental infrastructure densely concentrated, residents in this area have suffered disadvantages in exercising property rights, leading to continuous demands for resolving these disadvantages and improving living conditions.

However, the city expects that the establishment of an eco-friendly public golf course and other facilities in Geumgo-dong according to the development plan will partially alleviate such resident damages.

Lee Jang-woo, Mayor of Daejeon, emphasized the necessity of the project, stating, “The establishment of an eco-friendly golf course in the Geumgo-dong area of Yuseong-gu is a strategy to expand the insufficient community sports infrastructure of the Daedeok Research and Development Special Zone and to resolve the long-standing grievances of local residents who have suffered disadvantages in exercising property rights due to various undesirable facilities for decades.”

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