Cheongsong-gun Selected for Green New Deal Underground Power Line Project Competition

Cheongsong-gun, Gyeongbuk Province, has achieved the great success of being selected for the 2024 Underground Power Line Project (Green New Deal Public Contest Project) led by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

Cheongsong-gun selected for the Green New Deal underground power line project competition. (Gusan 2-ri, Hyeonseo-myeon)

This is a large-scale project with a total budget of 11.15 billion KRW, a Green New Deal project investing 7.59 billion KRW from public enterprises and national funds, and 2.5 billion KRW from the county budget.

The selected sections this time are Andeok-myeon (Andeok Middle School, 620m) and Hyeonseo-myeon (Hwameok Elementary School, 840m). In 2024, a business agreement will be signed with Korea Electric Power Corporation and telecommunications companies to promote the project, and the ultimate beneficiaries will be the residents of Cheongsong, which is expected to greatly increase satisfaction.

Through the Green New Deal project, Cheongsong-gun plans to underground the overhead distribution lines to ensure pedestrian safety for students attending Hwameok Elementary School and Andeok Middle School, and to create a pedestrian-friendly environment by improving the walking environment for residents in connection with the road diet (reducing road width and increasing sidewalk width) to enhance the landscape.

In particular, along with improving urban aesthetics and electrical safety, the plan is to make the main streets of Andeok-myeon and Hyeonseo-myeon clean and vibrant, thereby revitalizing the surrounding commercial districts.

Andeok-myeon and Hyeonseo-myeon had been relatively underdeveloped compared to other towns and townships, with complaints about the aesthetics and pedestrian inconvenience caused by utility poles and communication poles scattered along every sidewalk. Through this public contest project, they can be reborn as “Cheongsong-gun, the Oxygen Cafe You Want to Live In.”

This year’s undergrounding project faced higher hurdles than ever due to budget issues with KEPCO, making Cheongsong-gun’s selection in the public contest even more remarkable.

Governor Yoon Kyung-hee said, “During the expected construction period, significant inconvenience to vehicle traffic and pedestrians is anticipated, so we ask for the cooperation of all residents, and we will repay you with a cleaner and more beautiful urban landscape.”

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