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Opening of Kumtree Center, a Cultural Playground to Nurture the Dreams and Hopes of Pohang Youth and Young Adults.
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Pohang City held an opening ceremony for the ‘Pohang KkumTree Center (Youth Culture House/Youth Startup Platform),’ a cultural welfare playground and resting space for teenagers and young adults, on the 29th, and officially began its operation.
The ‘Pohang KkumTree Center’ was promoted after being finally selected in 2017 for the urban regeneration New Deal project in the central district and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family’s youth training facility expansion project to revitalize the deteriorated downtown area. After about three years of construction since groundbreaking in 2019, it has now opened.
On this day, at the central garden of the Youth Culture House, a Youth Harmony Yard event was held featuring a math experience exhibition and a dance song festival. Various one-day classes and experience booths were operated in each education room, including macrame accessory making, personal color diagnosis, smart health experience zone, special makeup permanent experience zone, 3D printing, profile photo shooting, vocal and recording sessions.
Mayor Lee Gang-deok of Pohang is visiting the one-day class and experience booths to encourage the participating youth and young adults.
The KkumTree Center was built on the site of the former Buk-gu Office with a total project cost of 20.5 billion KRW, consisting of one basement floor and four above-ground floors. The first floor houses the Youth Foundation and Youth Center offices, the second and third floors are the Youth Culture House, and the fourth floor is the Youth Startup Platform.
On the second floor of the Youth Culture House, there are image-making classrooms for SMART creative maker education, fourth industrial revolution education rooms, maker education rooms, video conference rooms, chroma key studios, and broadcasting rooms. The third-floor activity experience space includes a music recording studio, dance practice room, band practice room, multipurpose auditorium, as well as creative experience spaces such as smart health (Exerbike, Exerheart, etc.) and robot tank control using coding.
A space where music arrangement, composition, and recording can be done all at once has been prepared. Integrated activities such as dance practice and band performance using arranged music tracks are possible, and multimedia creative activities can be conducted through linked education rooms utilizing the chroma key studio and broadcasting room for live commerce, video shooting, and editing.
Specialized programs such as smart creative science, smart music, and smart sports (with a permanent smart health experience space) will be operated for local youth to provide creative education.
Since the opening, the Youth Culture House plans to recruit participants for programs including creative science (robotics, coding, 3D printing, drones), smart media (video shooting and editing), music arrangement, composition, mixing, cultural lectures, and multimedia education for local youth.
The center is entrusted to be operated by the Pohang Youth Foundation and is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. It is closed every Monday and on public holidays. Youth aged 9 to 24 residing in Pohang can use the facility.
Facility use and rental applications can be made via the website, phone, or in person.
Mayor Kangdeok Lee said, “With the opening of the Pohang KkumTree Center, I am confident it will become a new landmark in the deteriorated central district,” and added, “I hope it becomes a vibrant space where local youth and young adults can rest, learn, and play.”
Yoon Youngran, CEO of the City Youth Foundation, said, “We will support various activities centered on information, culture, and arts so that the Youth Culture House can establish itself as a cultural welfare playground for Pohang youth,” and added, “We will create a complex cultural space where the dreams of local youth are made.”
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