Daejeon City to Invest 79 Billion Won in Hanbat Arboretum Premium Project

36 Exhibition Halls to Be Integrated into 23 by 2028
Basic Design for Wooden Structures Next Year...Underground Parking Expansion

Hanbat Arboretum, Daejeon / Daejeon City

Daejeon City announced that it is promoting the Hanbat Arboretum Premium Project to renovate aging facilities that have been in operation for over 20 years.

To improve visitor convenience and transform Hanbat Arboretum into a leading arboretum in Korea, the city is investing a total of 79 billion KRW by 2028, including 6.5 billion KRW from the national government and 72.5 billion KRW from the city budget, to implement the Hanbat Arboretum Premium Project.

The project is divided into: △Arboretum specialization (5 billion KRW), △Construction of a wooden architectural landmark (bridge) connecting the East and West Gardens (29 billion KRW), and △Underground parking at Dunsan Grand Park (45 billion KRW).

To specialize the arboretum, the city plans to consolidate and reorganize the current 36 exhibition gardens into 23, expanding those most preferred by visitors and securing greater biodiversity.

Last year, the city expanded and renovated the Rose Garden to improve the viewing environment, and collected and propagated 1,648 new varieties, including European roses, for exhibition.

This year, from September to December, 1 billion KRW will be invested to renovate the green space south of the Arts Center, expanding open space and increasing leisure areas for citizens.

In 2025, the city plans to use space and byproducts secured by thinning densely planted trees to extend the barefoot walking trail in the West Garden to 1.5 km, and complete the integration and reorganization of themed gardens by 2026.

For the construction of the wooden architectural landmark (bridge), the city will secure 2 billion KRW in next year's budget to proceed with detailed design, with plans to begin construction in 2027 and complete it by 2028.

The underground parking project at Dunsan Grand Park aims to expand citizen rest areas by transforming above-ground parking into green space. The city will build underground parking on the south side of the City Art Museum, increasing capacity from the current 1,195 spaces to 1,508 spaces, an addition of 313 spaces. Basic and detailed design will be conducted from 2025 to 2026, with completion targeted for 2028.

Park Dohyun, Director of Greenery and Agro-Bio at Daejeon City, said, "We will do our best with the premium project so that Hanbat Arboretum, the representative green space of Daejeon visited by people from all over the country, can become not only a landmark of Daejeon but also a healing destination representing Korea."

Meanwhile, Hanbat Arboretum, located in the city center, has gained popularity with an average annual visitor count exceeding 1.5 million over the past three years.

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