Gwangju City Selected as 'Excellent Tree-Lined Street for Walking'

Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 1st that it has finally selected Nam-gu’s Obang-ro as the ‘2023 Excellent Tree-Lined Street You Want to Walk’ through an online public opinion survey and an on-site evaluation by the Urban Forest Committee.

The tree-lined street of Obang-ro in Nam-gu stretches 1 km from Bangrim Intersection to the Mudeung 1st Intersection in Bongseon-dong, where various trees such as Japanese cheesewood and hydrangea harmonize, earning recognition for ecological healthiness.

In particular, it received high marks as a resting green space where citizens, living in densely populated school and residential areas, can take a break and chat while walking.

Gwangju City plans to provide additional maintenance funds for street trees in 2024 to Nam-gu, which manages Obang-ro.

The selection of the ‘Excellent Tree-Lined Street You Want to Walk’ is a policy initiated in 2021 to manage street trees, which are the easiest to encounter in daily life, as spaces that citizens enjoy visiting. This year marks the third time for the selection. In 2021, Dong-gu’s Geumnam-ro was selected, and last year, Gwangsan-gu’s Imbangul-daero was chosen.

Each autonomous district recommended two tree-lined streets, totaling 10 locations. In the first round of evaluation on July 7, five streets (Neoritjae Old Road in Dong-gu, Mujin-daero in Seo-gu, Obang-ro in Nam-gu, Seoam-daero in Buk-gu, and Mujin-daero in Gwangsan-gu) were selected through the Urban Forest Committee’s review of creation and management.

The second round of evaluation was conducted from the 14th to the 28th of last month through an online public opinion survey on Gwangju City’s website, reflecting 70% of citizen participation and 30% of on-site evaluation by the Urban Forest Committee, ultimately selecting Obang-ro in Nam-gu.

Jung Gang-wook, Director of the Green Policy Division, said, “The selection of the ‘Excellent Tree-Lined Street You Want to Walk’ is meaningful as citizens participated together,” adding, “We will focus on managing the selected tree-lined street so that it can remain a premium tree-lined street for a long time.”

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