Busan City to Promote Elimination of Plastic Artificial Flowers in Public Cemeteries During Chuseok Holiday

Countermeasure Meeting to Be Held at 3 PM on the 9th in the Busan Yeongnak Park Conference Room

Ban on Plastic Flowers, Promotion of Fresh Flower Use, and Refrain from Selling Artificial Flowers

The city of Busan held a meeting titled "2024 Chuseok Holiday Public Cemetery Plastic Flower Eradication Countermeasures" at 3 p.m. on the 9th in the conference room of Busan Yeongnak Park.

To eradicate plastic flowers in public cemeteries, the city, together with the Busan Facilities Corporation and the Korea Flower Promotion Council, has been conducting a campaign to eliminate plastic flowers at Yeongnak Park, a public cemetery, during every holiday season since last Chuseok.

This meeting was organized to establish practical measures to maximize the effectiveness of eradicating plastic flowers.

More than 10 stakeholders, including officials from the city, the Busan Facilities Corporation, and flower vendors near Yeongnak Park, attended the meeting to discuss in depth the measures to eradicate plastic flowers in public cemeteries during the Chuseok holiday.

On June 29 last year, the city, the Busan Facilities Corporation (the entrusted operator of Yeongnak Park), private cemetery operators within the city, and the Korea Flower Promotion Council signed a memorandum of understanding for the eradication of plastic flowers in cemeteries.

As many visitors are expected at public cemeteries during this Chuseok, the city requested the following: ▲ban on bringing in plastic flowers ▲promotion of using fresh flowers and refraining from selling artificial ones ▲removal of all artificial flowers brought in this year before the Lunar New Year next year.

The meeting participants agreed that the ban on plastic flowers should be promoted nationwide.

Lee Byungseok, Director of the City’s Environmental Water Policy Office, stated, “Through this meeting, we hope to reduce the use of plastic flowers in public cemeteries during the Chuseok holiday and foster an eco-friendly memorial culture. Although it may be somewhat inconvenient and cumbersome, we ask for the active participation of cemetery visitors to realize a carbon-neutral and sustainable eco-friendly city, Busan.”