Guri-si, First Local Government Selected for '7 Consecutive Years Universal Design Project' Competition

Guri Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market, finally selected for the '2025 Universal Design Project for Transportation Vulnerable Groups' competition.

The city of Guri, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Baek Kyung-hyun) announced on the 9th that it has been finally selected for the Gyeonggi Province-led '2025 Universal Design Project for the Transportation Vulnerable (Guri Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market)' and secured 150 million KRW in provincial funding.

Guri City selected the area around the Guri Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market (Fruit and Vegetable Building) as the project site and actively collaborated with the Guri Agricultural and Marine Products Corporation. After comprehensive evaluation procedures including document screening and final presentation review, it achieved the great success of being selected as one of five cities/counties out of 31 cities/counties in Gyeonggi Province.

Since Guri City has been the only local government to be selected for seven consecutive years since 2017 in the Gyeonggi Province Universal Design contest, it plans to actively promote the project to create an environment where everyone can live safely and conveniently, and establish it as an excellent example of pedestrian-centered public space universal design.

This project will invest a total budget of 500 million KRW (150 million KRW from provincial funds, 350 million KRW from city funds) in the area around the Fruit and Vegetable Building of the Guri Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market to create △ a safe and convenient pedestrian-centered spatial environment △ secure pedestrian pathways connecting parking lots and access spaces △ improve access and movement spaces such as ramps and stairs △ reorganize public information media design to create a safe considerate path and an easy-to-find, convenient, and dignified space.

Mayor Baek Kyung-hyun of Guri said, “Through the Universal Design project, we will actively implement universal design to enable transportation vulnerable groups to create changes for social value in a discrimination-free environment.”