Dongdaemun-gu Holds ESG Ideathon Meeting... Grand Prize Awarded to Team Proposing 'Comprehensive Clothing Platform for Disabled'

Creative Ideas Sought to Solve Local Daily Issues, Final Meeting Held with 3 Selected Teams
Aiming to Improve Local Problem Solving and Residents' Quality of Life through Idea Realization

Dongdaemun-gu (District Mayor Lee Pil-hyung) ESG Economic Support Center held a meeting on the 17th with the three teams that were finally selected in the ‘2024 ESG Ideathon,’ which gathers creative ideas to solve everyday local problems.

The term ‘Ideathon’ is a combination of Idea and Marathon, referring to a competition where teams generate and present ideas within a limited time.

Last month, the Dongdaemun-gu ESG Economic Support Center collected ideas divided into free topics such as climate crisis response, housing welfare, urban regeneration, safety, youth, and women, as well as specialized topics like resident job creation and community care, and finally selected three teams through a final presentation.

The grand prize was awarded to the team that proposed the ‘Comprehensive Clothing Platform for People with Disabilities,’ which breaks down barriers between non-disabled and disabled individuals. The team suggested an idea where people with disabilities can conveniently repair clothes through a non-face-to-face clothing repair brokerage platform service, and in the future, by accumulating physical data of people with disabilities, expand into selling clothing that many disabled people can comfortably wear on average through the ‘Comprehensive Clothing Platform for People with Disabilities.’

The excellence award went to the team that proposed the idea of creating flame-retardant materials recycled from waste fibers to establish a flame-retardant environment in the ‘Saehwal-yong’ traditional market, and the encouragement award was given to the team that suggested making local liquor using fruit stock from Cheongnyangni fruit market and medicinal herbs from Yakryeong market.

Through the meeting, the ESG Economic Support Center discussed ways to concretize the ideas of the three selected teams and plans to actively support the implementation of these ideas through expert matching and consulting in the future.

A district official stated, “We will strive to concretize and realize the good ideas selected through the ESG Ideathon to solve local problems and improve the quality of life for residents.”

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