New Nest in Gwanak-gu 'Sillim-dong Three-Room' Youth Housing

Published 24 Mar.2025 06:30(KST)

Expansion and Relocation to University-dong Youth Safety Housing:
Occupying 140 Pyeong on the 1st and 2nd Floors
A More Diverse Youth Cultural Space Than Before:
Featuring Sillim Kitchen, Sillim Workshop, and Multipurpose Multi-Content Room

Joonhee Park, Mayor of Gwanak-gu (left), and Seonggwang Jeong, Director of Sillim-dong Three-Room Center

Gwanak-gu, South Korea’s first ‘Youth-Friendly City,’ has completed the expansion and relocation of its representative youth cultural space, ‘Sillim-dong Three Room,’ and held an opening ceremony on the 21st.

The event was attended by Park Jun-hee, Mayor of Gwanak-gu, city and district council members, heads of related organizations, and about 50 young people to celebrate the relocation of Sillim-dong Three Room.

‘Sillim-dong Three Room,’ a youth cultural space under the Seoul Youth Center Gwanak, has taken a new nest in the youth vitality space within the university-dong youth safety housing (99 Sillim-ro, Gwanak-gu), which was completed last August.

Previously renting a private facility, Sillim-dong Three Room received a donation of part of the youth housing space, gaining its own ‘home’ on the 1st and 2nd floors with approximately 140 pyeong (total floor area 461.44㎡).

The newly relocated Sillim-dong Three Room is about 40 pyeong larger than before, and the district expects it to provide more diverse youth-tailored services.

The first floor consists of ▲information desk ▲Sillim Lounge (rest and networking space) ▲Sillim Kitchen (social dining, supporting the dietary needs of single-person households).

The second floor features newly established spaces including ▲individual and group counseling rooms ▲Sillim Workshop (home repair, woodworking, crafts, etc.) ▲multipurpose multi-content room (small-scale media work, practice rooms, etc.) ▲Sillim Library (education room equipped with audiovisual facilities), offering a wider variety of youth cultural spaces than before.

Jung Sung-kwang, Director of Sillim-dong Three Room, said at the opening ceremony, “As Seoul’s first youth center and currently the one with the largest membership of over 50,000 in Seoul, we expect that this expansion and relocation will allow Sillim-dong Three Room to deliver excellent youth policies of Gwanak-gu to even more young people.”

Since beginning operations in 2019, Sillim-dong Three Room, along with Gwanak Youth Office, serves as a kind of forward base for the district’s systematic youth policy implementation.

As its name suggests, it provides a ‘third alternative’ cultural space for young people living in small spaces such as one-room apartments and goshiwon (small dormitory rooms), where living space is limited.

It also offers programs reflecting youth needs in employment, housing, and daily life, and functions as a space for sharing information and communication by building networks with youth communities.

Park Jun-hee, Mayor of Gwanak-gu, said, “The expansion and relocation of Sillim-dong Three Room is significant as the official first step in youth policy since our district was designated as the nation’s first youth-friendly city last February. Going forward, our district will continue to work with Sillim-dong Three Room and 200,000 young people to leap beyond Korea and become a ‘world-class youth capital.’”