On the 16th at 2 PM, over 300 participants including Haebangchon Village Gardeners, Citizen Gardeners, and Yongsan Dragons gathered around 421 Hangangno 2-ga for seasonal rose planting and climate action... District Chief Park Hee-young thanked everyone for joining in creating low-carbon green spaces to save the planet.
On the 16th at 2 p.m., Park Hee-young, the mayor of Yongsan District, visited the site of the Yongsan Charm Garden creation to encourage participants and join in the planting. The event included introductions of participating organizations, tree planting education, commemorative photos, an explanation of the event's purpose, and planting activities.
The Yongsan Charm Garden is located in front of Yongsan Station at 421 Hangangno 2-ga. Covering an area of 5,700㎡, approximately 5,000 trees and shrubs such as zelkova, cherry trees, spirea, hydrangea, and four-season roses were planted.
About 300 people participated on site, including Haebangchon village gardeners, citizen gardeners, garden artists, and the public-private-academic volunteer group Yongsan Dragons.
The space where a temporary screening clinic was installed from December 2020 to April 2022 has been transformed into three themed gardens: Yongsan Charm, Climate Companion, and Yongsan Dragons.
The Yongsan Charm area was designed as a themed park representing Yongsan and the Han River. The Climate Companion Garden was created by recycling plants discarded from households. The district collected flowerpots last month, and the planting was handled by Haebangchon village gardeners. About 80 members of the Yongsan Dragons public-private-academic volunteer group took charge of the Yongsan Dragons area and decorated it.
Park Hee-young, mayor of Yongsan District, said, “The long lines that used to form at the temporary screening clinic in front of Yongsan Station have disappeared into history, and the area has been reborn as a low-carbon green space. We will also strive to maintain and manage the Charm Garden, which will become a gateway park of Yongsan and a beloved space for citizens along with the Parkway that opened last year.”
The district manages the Charm Garden together with Haebangchon village gardeners, who have been cultivating gardens in Yongsan 2-ga and Huam-dong areas for five years since the 2019 Seoul International Garden Expo. They continue to create companion gardens for the vulnerable so that flowering plants and ornamental trees can be enjoyed anywhere in the area, utilize vacant houses for garden creation, carry out the Itaewon streetscape project, and plant spring flowers.
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