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Songpa-gu (Mayor Seo Gang-seok) is transforming the idle spaces in Bangi Market into customer rest areas and education spaces by reflecting the voices of residents and merchants.

Bangi Market (41, Baekjegobun-ro 48-gil) is a traditional market with excellent accessibility, located near Jamsil Tourism Special Zone and Songpanaru Station. In spring and autumn, it hosts beer festivals, night markets, and various events, and is adjacent to Songridan-gil, attracting many MZ generation and foreign tourists.

However, there have been complaints about the lack of resting spaces for visitors to stay and spaces for merchants, causing inconvenience.

Accordingly, the district office will create a 'customer rest area' and an 'education room' in Bangi Market by October.

The space will utilize the idle area on the 3rd floor of the Bangi Market Merchants Association building. In recent years, this space has been used for storing goods and various community group meetings, making it difficult for merchants and visitors to use effectively.

The customer rest area will be a place where visitors can take a break or eat purchased food. The education room will be used for merchant awareness improvement and capacity-building training, as well as one-day classes and meetings for residents.

Additionally, the restroom on the 1st floor of the building will be improved and opened to visitors to enhance convenience.

The district office has also recently resolved issues related to the operation space for community association programs.

Residents of Bangi 2-dong had difficulties as cultural and educational programs were suspended after the Bangi 2-dong Community Center was redeveloped in 2020, eliminating separate spaces.

To quickly address residents' inconveniences, the district office established a community center in a donated building near the temporary Bangi 2-dong office last August. It consists of a program room for physical education classes, a lecture room for cultural and educational courses, and an office for the community center, enabling application, registration, and attendance in one place.

Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, stated, “We will continue to actively utilize idle spaces in the area to promptly resolve various inconveniences experienced by residents, merchants, and visitors, thereby increasing satisfaction.”

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