Seongnam and Uijeongbu Old Children's Playgrounds Remodeled Through Public-Private Partnership

Yeom Tae-young, Deputy Governor for Economic Affairs of Gyeonggi Province (center), is taking a commemorative photo after holding a public-private joint agreement ceremony for the creation of public children's playground projects with Seongnam City, Uijeongbu City, and others on the 10th.

Gyeonggi Province is remodeling two old children's playgrounds in the province into safe public playgrounds.

On the 10th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seongnam City, Uijeongbu City, the Nexon Foundation, and Good Neighbors regarding this matter.

According to the agreement, each organization will create public playgrounds that enhance children's health rights by renovating facilities, cleaning the environment, and maintaining the Nadeuli Children's Playground in Seongnam-dong, Jungwon-gu, Seongnam City, and the Haneulbit Children's Park in Singok-dong, Uijeongbu City by 2024.

The Nexon Foundation will fully sponsor the project costs, Good Neighbors will oversee design and construction management, Gyeonggi Province will handle project promotion and administrative support, and Seongnam City and Uijeongbu City will provide the project sites, support local resident participation, and be responsible for facility operation after completion.

Until the sponsoring Nexon Foundation finalized the project sites with Seongnam City and Uijeongbu City, Gyeonggi Province played an active bridging role by conducting demand surveys and on-site guidance in 31 cities and counties.

Since 2017, Gyeonggi Province has been promoting the ‘Gyeonggi Ainuri Playground Project,’ where children and parents directly participate from the design stage to improve the environment of aging children's playgrounds, remodeling 20 to 24 old playgrounds annually.

Gyeonggi Province explained that this MOU is meaningful in that the children's playground environment improvement project, which had been led by administrative offices, has now become a cooperative project involving the private sector and local residents.

Yeom Tae-young, Deputy Governor for Economy of Gyeonggi Province, said, "To expand children's rights and opportunities to play, we plan to provide many opportunities for private organizations to participate in the remodeling of old children's playgrounds in the future."

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