Busan City Holds Completion Ceremony for Haeundae Arboretum 'Meeting Plaza'

Donation Forest Created with Mirae Asset, Realizing Moving Busan

2:30 PM on the 18th at Haeundae Arboretum, Over 100 Attendees

Busan City will hold a completion ceremony for the ‘Meeting Plaza’ at 2:30 PM on the 18th at the entrance of Haeundae Arboretum.

Meeting Plaza.

The ceremony will be attended by about 100 people, including Mayor Park Hyung-jun, Mirae Asset Chairman Park Hyun-joo, National Assembly member Kim Mi-ae, Haeundae District Mayor Kim Sung-soo, and local residents. The event will proceed in the order of a performance by the Donga Talent Donation Volunteer Group, presentation of appreciation plaques, commemorative speeches, congratulatory speeches, unveiling ceremony, and facility tour.

The ‘Meeting Plaza,’ whose completion is being announced on this day, is a donation forest of approximately 3,000 square meters created with 1 billion KRW donated by Mirae Asset to Haeundae Arboretum. This is the largest amount invested in a single donation project conducted at Haeundae Arboretum.

Mirae Asset generously donated 1 billion KRW in August 2021 to provide a more pleasant resting place in Haeundae Arboretum, which was reborn as a green space for Busan citizens from the former Seokdae landfill site.

To add symbolic significance to this donation, the city entrusted Jung Young-sun, CEO of Seoan and Korea’s first certified landscape architect, with the spatial planning and design of the ‘Meeting Plaza,’ creating a more meaningful green space.

The ‘Meeting Plaza’ is planted with about 90 Chinese tallow trees as the main species. The Chinese tallow tree is also called the ‘Golden Rain Tree’ because it blooms countless golden flowers in early summer. In addition, 150,000 plants including blue sage and pride of India, which bloom purple flowers, have been planted. When spring arrives and the flowers bloom, the entire land will be dyed in golden and purple hues.

Landscape lighting has also been installed so visitors can enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of Haeundae Arboretum even at night. To honor the donor, the city installed a separate donation forest information board and plans to spread the positive influence of donation culture to visitors through it.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun said, “Thanks to Mirae Asset’s generous donation, we have created ‘Meeting Plaza,’ a pleasant resting place for citizens in Haeundae Arboretum. We hope this donation forest project will remind us once again of the importance and meaning of giving, and that the positive influence of donation culture will spread widely and deeply across all sectors throughout Busan.”

He added, “With the support of various organizations and groups participating wholeheartedly in the donation campaign for the Haeundae Arboretum project, including Mirae Asset, Korea Housing & Urban Guarantee Corporation, Panasia, and the International Lions Club, we will continue to do our best to establish Haeundae Arboretum as the green cultural complex space most loved and frequently visited by Busan citizens as soon as possible.”

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