Uiwang City to Hold 8th Gyeonggi Garden Culture Expo May 20-22

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] The '8th Gyeonggi Garden Culture Expo' will be held for three days from May 20 to 22 at Uiwang Resole Park.

Uiwang City announced on the 24th that it will hold the '8th Gyeonggi Garden Culture Expo,' which was postponed last year to prevent the spread of COVID-19, for three days in accordance with social distancing guidelines.

In October last year, the city made full preparations for the expo by remodeling Resole Park according to the expo timeline, creating 14 gardens selected through public competition, forming a citizen task force, and training citizen gardeners. However, the expo was not held due to the COVID-19 situation.

Accordingly, the city plans to conduct this Gyeonggi Garden Culture Expo with a focus on COVID-19 prevention measures to ensure it is a safe event, primarily through online programs, while significantly reducing and operating experience programs through a pre-reservation system.

Although the expo will run for three days, the entire Resole Park will be transformed into a spring garden with annual flower beds, topiary sculptures, and rapeseed flower fields, allowing visitors to fully enjoy the expo space throughout May.

Uiwang Mayor Kim Sang-don said, "While this year's expo will be held at a smaller scale than originally planned, we will make it an opportunity to provide a healing space for citizens exhausted by COVID-19 and to raise awareness of Resole Park."