Gyeongju City Center Cemetery Transformed into Public Parking Lot... 157 Graves Relocated and Construction Underway

Gyeongju City announced on the 4th that the long-awaited project in the Hwangseong-dong area, the ‘Hwangseong-dong Public Parking Lot,’ has been completed.

This site had been a source of ongoing complaints as it contained graves within a densely populated residential area, which not only impaired the urban landscape but was also pointed out as an obstacle to regional development.

157 graves in the communal cemetery in Hwangseong-dong, Gyeongju City were relocated, and a public parking lot capable of accommodating 99 passenger cars was completed on this site.

Accordingly, Gyeongju City decided to develop this area into a public parking lot and began investigating the graves and searching for their relatives starting in 2019.

As a result of concentrated administrative efforts, the city successfully completed the exhumation of all 157 graves (62 with known relatives, 95 without) on city-owned land in October of last year.

Subsequently, in December of the same year, the city announced the approval of the urban planning facility (parking lot) project implementation plan, and in February of this year, completed compensation for 286㎡ of private land (including one grave) incorporated into the parking lot facility, starting construction in March.

A total project cost of 1.4 billion KRW was invested, creating a parking lot with an area of 4,030㎡, 99 parking spaces, and an urban planning road measuring 8 meters in width and 55 meters in length.

The appearance of the communal cemetery before Gyeongju City relocated the graves.

Currently, final reinforcement work is underway, and after facility inspections, the parking lot is scheduled to open free of charge to citizens and visitors from mid-July.

Mayor Ju Nak-young of Gyeongju said, “The completion of the parking lot is expected to not only resolve parking issues in the densely populated residential and commercial areas of Hwangseong-dong but also greatly contribute to revitalizing the local economy.”

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