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  In 2016, the Seoul Metropolitan Government will carry out a project aimed at transforming dilapidated park playgrounds into safe and creative spaces for children. The transformation of twenty selected playgrounds will be completed by the end of the year through the participation of local residents. Funding for the overhaul of eighteen of the twenty...   Read more

Poverty, food shortages, health, imbalance in education, gender inequality, energy depletion, shortage of jobs, climate change, and the income gap are among the greatest problems facing humankind. The international community has made efforts to solve these global problems in the 2001-2015 period under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and made significant achievement. Still, there is...   Read more

Gocheok Sky Dome is Seoul’s newest indoor baseball stadium. The stadium, based in the west of Seoul, has a capacity of 16,000 and is home to the Nexen Heroes baseball team. It officially opened in 2015 and is the country’s first of its kind with transparent soundproof panels for keeping the noise out from disturbing...   Read more

A bird’s eye view (of the ground level) On May 2, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced a plan for the development of an underground town in Yeondongdaero [the COEX-Samseong Station-Hyundai Global Business Center (GBC) section] with a size of 30 ballparks. The 630m-long (70m wide and 51m deep) section between Samseong Station (Subway Line-2) and...   Read more

On April 30, the SMG officially opened Seoul e-Stadium. A ceremony celebrating the opening of the e-Stadium was held on the same day, with many people in attendance, including Mayor Park Won-soon, Sports Minister Kim Jong-deok, and CJ E&M President Kim Seong-su. The e-Stadium has been built with the investment of a total of 53.5...   Read more

The SMG announced a measure named Special City Respecting Workers’ Rights 2016, which includes seven promises, in an effort to improve workplace environments and job instability, as well as put an end to the infringement of workers’ rights. Promise 1: One-stop settlement of cases associated with workers’ rights Seoul City officials will help low-income workers...   Read more