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Yeongjung-ro Tree-lined Street

Yeongdeungpo-gu (District Mayor Choi Ho-kwon) announced that it has been selected as the ‘Best District’ for two consecutive years in the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s ‘2024 Excellent Managed Street Tree Road Competition,’ recognized for its diverse seasonal scenery and safety.

This once again proves the district’s determination to create ‘Yeongdeungpo, the City of Flowers, Yeongdeungpo, the Garden City,’ where flowers and trees are cultivated throughout everyday life.

The ‘2024 Excellent Managed Street Tree Road Competition,’ hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, is held annually to discover and share best practices, improve pruning methods, and enhance urban landscape and ecological health.

The evaluation criteria include ▲scenic quality ▲ecological health ▲citizen participation ▲maintenance ▲safety, and excellent street tree roads are selected through document evaluation and on-site inspection by a panel of experts including arborists.

In this evaluation, the district submitted the street tree road area along Yeongjung-ro (from Yeongdeungpo Market Station to the intersection in front of Dangsan Middle School) and was honored as the best district for two consecutive years among 25 autonomous districts.

In particular, the district received high marks for creating garden-style green belts under street trees and pruning (scenic quality), operating a dedicated team for street tree protection facilities and conducting street tree safety diagnosis services (safety), and running a green management volunteer corps involving residents (citizen participation).

The district expects that the representative ‘Yeongjung-ro Street Tree Road’ will lead urban landscape improvement and efficient street tree management, establishing itself as a premium street tree road representing local governments.

So far, the district has been striving to create and manage green spaces in parks, street sides, alleys, streams, and small leftover lands throughout the city to allow residents to experience small gardens and seasonal changes even in the urban center. It creates ‘garden-style green belts’ so that residents can feel small gardens and seasonal changes while walking the streets, and minimizes resident damage by conducting ‘hazardous street tree maintenance’ before the rainy season.

That is not all. To establish a sustainable green management culture, the district operates a ‘Green Management Volunteer Corps’ where residents participate in decorating green spaces.

Choi Ho-kwon, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, said, “We will create oasis-like street tree roads in every corner of the neighborhood to enhance the city’s dignity and enable flowers, trees, nature, and people to live together harmoniously. We will also strengthen park and green space expansion projects to shed the image of ‘Yeongdeungpo without mountains’ and transform into a ‘garden city, cultural city, healthy and healing city’ that offers healing and rest.”