Daejeon City 2nd Arboretum Naming Contest... "Help Us Find a Familiar Name"

Applications Accepted from April 17 to May 7... Grand Prize 500,000 Won

Perspective view of the 2nd Arboretum / Daejeon City

Daejeon City announced that it is holding a naming contest for the Daejeon Second Arboretum, which will be located in the Hodong area of Bomunsan.

The Daejeon Second Arboretum is a project to create themed exhibition gardens such as terrace gardens, grass gardens, and bubble gardens, as well as propagation and cultivation facilities, a forest gallery, and a plant library on a 1.45 million square meter (440,000 pyeong) site in the Bomunsan area. The project will be carried out from 2023 to 2027 with an investment of 115 billion KRW.

The submission period is from the 17th to May 7th, and anyone can participate regardless of region or age, with one entry per person.

Applicants can download the application form and the consent form for the use of personal information from the announcement section on the Daejeon City website, fill them out, and submit via email.

The city will select the final five proposals through a three-stage evaluation process: first internal screening, second advisory review, and third preference survey, based on criteria such as symbolism, creativity, popularity, and suitability.

Prizes include one grand prize of 500,000 KRW, two excellence awards of 300,000 KRW each, and two encouragement awards of 100,000 KRW each. The final results will be announced on the city’s website in mid-June.

Park Dohyun, Director of the Environment and Greenery Bureau of Daejeon City, said, “We hope the Daejeon Second Arboretum will receive a name that everyone can easily relate to,” and added, “We look forward to diverse and creative ideas from citizens and encourage active participation.”

Meanwhile, regarding the Daejeon Second Arboretum project, the city plans to request the second ‘Central Investment Review’ within this month once the feasibility study by the Local Investment Project Management Center (LIMAC) of the Korea Institute of Local Administration is completed. Subsequently, the city aims to complete preliminary administrative procedures by July and proceed with the full-scale land compensation process in the second half of the year.

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