SK Gas Completes Second 'Haengboksup Garden' at LPG Business Hub in Pyeongtaek

Major LPG Business Hubs in the Seoul Metropolitan Area
Various Win-Win Activities with Pyeongtaek City

SK Gas announced on the 21st that it has created a 313㎡ (approximately 95 pyeong) scale ‘Haengboksoop Garden’ in the Hakhyun-ri area of Anjung-eup, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi Province, and held a completion ceremony. Pyeongtaek is a major hub for SK Gas’s metropolitan area LPG business.

The Haengboksoop Garden project is part of SK Gas’s ESG master plan under the activity of ‘Ecological Protection and Urban Forest Creation.’ It is being promoted to protect the ecosystem near SK Gas business sites and create forests to build a clean local community environment. After creating and donating the first Haengboksoop Garden with a scale of 150 pyeong in the Godeok-dong area of Pyeongtaek last November, this is the second one.

This Haengboksoop Garden was designed with the concept of ‘Harmony of Nature,’ harmoniously creating garden and resting spaces with existing plantings, making it a place for relaxation and communication for Pyeongtaek citizens and visitors. It has good accessibility as it is near Anjung Gymnasium, Senior Welfare Center, apartment complexes, and schools.

The first 'Happy Forest Garden' of SK Gas located in Godeok-dong, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi Province
[Photo by SK Gas]

The forest garden was planted with a total of 870 trees and shrubs, including Moon Grow, Cornus, Arrowwood, White Horse Chestnut, Spiraea, Ninebark, Patchouli, Korean Aster, Hosta, and Baby Giraffe Grass. The ‘CODE.G system’ introduced in the first Haengboksoop Garden was applied here as well, enabling automatic watering based on soil, temperature, and humidity through an Internet of Things (IoT) platform.

Woo Byung-jae, SK Gas’s ESG manager, said, “We hope Haengboksoop Garden will contribute to a better life for Pyeongtaek citizens as a pleasant and comfortable resting space,” adding, “We will continue to enhance social value through various win-win activities and social contributions and contribute to the development of the Pyeongtaek region.”

Haengboksoop Garden is one of the various social contribution activities SK Gas is carrying out in Pyeongtaek. SK Gas is volunteering at the Seo Pyeongtaek Bang Jeong-hwan Regional Children’s Center by cleaning, repairing, and providing learning guidance for children. It also conducts a ‘One Company, One Coastal Care’ program three times a year, picking up trash around Pyeongtaekho and Namyangho Lakes and cleaning nearby areas. Scholarships are provided to 20 children in Po-seung-eup, and in winter, SK Gas supports kimchi-making with a total of 1 ton of kimchi and provides cold-weather kits to the Bang Jeong-hwan Center and nursing homes.

In the future, SK Gas plans to proceed with the installation project of ‘Jigwanseoga’ in Pyeongtaek. Jigwanseoga is a humanities hub space promoted as part of SK’s ESG projects. It operates in the form of a book caf?, with its 5th branch currently open in Ulsan Metropolitan City. On the 12th, SK Gas signed a business agreement with Pyeongtaek City for the Jigwanseoga installation project.

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