Youngtong-gu Healing Street Eco-Friendly Tree Protector Maintenance

Youngtong-gu (District Chief Choi Hee-soon) is working to create a clean and beautiful pedestrian space where patients visiting hospitals and pharmacies, as well as citizens tired from daily life, can experience emotional and psychological comfort and bright moods through a specially designed 'Healing Street' for natural recovery. The district has renovated 79 deteriorated and damaged tree protectors along World Cup Road (from Ajou University Main Gate to Hospital Entrance) using eco-friendly wooden materials.

The Healing Street project contributes to the health promotion and well-being of residents and is being promoted to construct a people-centered hopeful city of Youngtong through the creation of clean and beautiful streetscapes. It is one of the projects currently being pursued by the district that encompasses both health and healing.

District Chief Choi Hee-soon said, "The existing tree protectors were mostly made of steel, making pedestrians feel disconnected from nature and clashing with the street trees. By renovating the Healing Street tree protectors with eco-friendly compressed wood, we will also contribute to realizing a 'low-carbon green city,'" he said.