Pyeongtaek Accelerates Citizen Leisure Spaces with Healing Zones and Urban Forests

[Suwon Ilbo = Reporter Seo Dong-young] Pyeongtaek announced on the 9th that it is focusing on creating thematic parks featuring themed attractions such as bonsai parks by park district and hydrangea parks, where citizens can experience and enjoy various attractions.

The city explained that parks within the Godeok International Development Zone will enable cultural exchange activities with both domestic and foreign visitors by securing cultural diversity coexistence and distinctiveness.

The city is also putting effort into apartment landscaping. On the 8th, Pyeongtaek Mayor Jung Jang-seon visited D Apartment in Segyo-dong and urged apartment officials, "Please make efforts so that apartment landscaping shared spaces—which go beyond being merely spaces for residents—deliver effects such as fine dust reduction, noise prevention, carbon dioxide absorption, oxygen supply, and prevention of urban heat islands in ways citizens can directly experience."

Meanwhile, to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Pyeongtaek has strengthened quarantine management at major urban parks such as Sopung Garden, which are expected to attract large numbers of citizens during the upcoming Chuseok holiday break. The city plans to actively promote quarantine guidelines including 'social distancing in daily life,' such as mandatory mask-wearing at park entrances.