Gwanak-gu Designates Alley Shopping District No. 6 to Revitalize Local Alley Economy

Designation of the 6th 'Seorim Happy-filled Alley-type Shopping District'
Various Supports Available Including Onnuri Gift Certificate Handling, Events, and Environmental Improvement Projects
Promotion of Alley-type Shopping District Designation Expansion Through Relaxation of Designation Requirements via Related Ordinance Amendments

Gwanak Jungbu Market

Gwanak-gu (District Mayor Park Jun-hee) has designated the ‘Seorim Happy-filled Alley-type Shopping District’ (17 parcels including 206 Sillim-ro, Seorim-dong) as the 6th alley-type shopping district, accelerating efforts to revitalize the alley commercial area.

An ‘alley-type shopping district’ refers to an area where stores operated by small business owners are densely concentrated above a certain level, according to relevant laws.

In 2020, the district enacted the ‘Ordinance on Supporting the Revitalization of Alley-type Shopping Districts in Gwanak-gu, Seoul,’ and has made various efforts to revitalize local commercial areas by designating ▲ Miseong-dong Dokkaebi Market ▲ Nangok Alley-type Shopping District ▲ Gwanak Jungbu Market ▲ Bongridan-gil Alley-type Shopping District ▲ Gangnam Alley Market as alley-type shopping districts.

The newly designated ‘Seorim Happy-filled Alley-type Shopping District’ is a market with high potential for future development, located at the entrance to Seorim-dong Byeolbitnaerin Stream (Dorimcheon) and Ssukgogae. It has a dense residential area in the background, resulting in a large floating population, and various businesses such as restaurants, marts, butcher shops, and hair salons are distributed.

With this designation, the ‘Seorim Happy-filled Alley-type Shopping District’ will be able to receive various benefits just like existing traditional markets and shopping districts.

Use of Onnuri Gift Certificates, which were previously only available in traditional markets or shopping districts, will now be possible, and participation in various commercial area revitalization projects such as events and environmental improvement projects conducted by the district will be enabled.

This is expected to greatly help in revitalizing the commercial area by increasing customer inflow and consequently boosting sales.

Meanwhile, the district is also working to ease the designation requirements through related ordinance amendments to provide benefits to more merchants by expanding the designation of alley-type shopping districts.

Currently, to be designated as an alley-type shopping district, there must be at least 30 small business stores densely concentrated within an area of 2,000 ㎡ or less. However, if the ordinance is amended in April, in non-commercial areas, designation will be possible if there are at least 25 small business stores within an area of 2,000 ㎡ or less. However, in commercial areas, the existing requirement of at least 30 stores densely concentrated will remain.

In addition, this year the district is investing a total of 3.7 billion KRW for the ‘Revitalization of Traditional Markets and (Alley-type) Shopping Districts,’ promoting various projects such as business modernization, facility modernization, safety inspections and repairs, and commercial area renaissance projects, putting full effort into revitalizing commercial areas.

District Mayor Park Jun-hee said, “This designation of the alley-type shopping district is expected to bring a pleasant breeze of change to the alley commercial area,” and added, “We will continue to discover and nurture more alley-type shopping districts to bring greater vitality to Gwanak-gu’s alley commercial areas.”

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