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The Seoul Volunteer Center is launching its “Let’s All Pick Up All Around Seoul” campaign for Earth Day on April 22. This campaign is promoting “plogging” to encourage participants to practice environmental protection in their daily life. Plogging, a compound word of the Swedish verb plocka upp (“pick up”) and the English gerund jogging, refers...   Read more

The surroundings of Ducksu Middle School’s playground have become a green space to relax among flowers and under the trees. The desolate vacant lot was reborn through the school afforestation project. The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) planted trees, including red-bark dogwoods, spindle trees, kerrias and azaleas, as well as flowering plants, including big blue lilyturfs,...   Read more

As a result of the continuous efforts of the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), the water quality of the Hangang River, which flows across Seoul, has become cleaner. In 2020, every index that evaluates the water quality of the Hangang River has exceeded the target value that was set by the Ministry of Environment (MOE). This...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) signed an MOU with Hyosung TNC as well as Geumcheon-gu, Yeongdeungpo-gu and Gangnam-gu Offices in order to enhance the recycling rate of waste transparent plastic bottles and create high added value. As a result, products including clothing and bags created through recycling were released on March 10. The first products...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is creating 120 “spring flower streets” throughout the city so that citizens weary of COVID-19 can feel happiness seeing flowers and trees in daily life. These spring flower streets, the creation of which will begin in full swing starting in March, will contain 42,000 hanging pots with spring flowers, such...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will be creating “forest paths” where nature breathes downtown by planting 400,000 trees in 68 locations, including tree-lined streets or abandoned lands in streets. Planting trees that reduce particulate matter under the roadside trees will make the linear green area and planting short and tall trees together will from the...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced that it will supply 11,779 eco-friendly electric vehicles in 2021, the largest annual scale so far. It amounts to 40% of the accumulated supply (31,029) in the last 12 years (2009–2020). The number of electric vehicles in Seoul will be over 40,000 following the addition of 11,779 vehicles to...   Read more

Installation of 44 Indoor Smart Gardens as Space for Healing in the COVID-19 Era Smart Garden in Boramae Medical Center Smart Garden in National Medical Center The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will install 44 indoor smart gardens* for citizens to find rest in their daily lives in 34 institutions by the end of 2021. Smart...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government’s (SMG) Fine Dust Research Institute will be operating its Mobile Air Quality Laboratory (Mobile Lab) that will run from the Seoul Research Institute of Public Health and Environment to roads throughout Seoul measuring particulate matter (PM) in real time. Mobile Lab is a mobile air quality measuring system. It comprises two...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will renovate Yangjae Hydrogen Station, the first hydrogen charging station in Seoul, with the latest equipment and largely increase its charging power for its official grand reopening in January 2021. The daily hydrogen energy storage power will increase by 2.5 times, and one charging station will be able to charge...   Read more

In April 2020, Seoul Mayor joined his fellow mayors on the Global Mayors COVID-19 Recovery Task Force to seek ways for a green and just recovery from COVID-19 driven by a recognition that going back to business as usual is not an option for public health and the accelerating climate crisis. New research commissioned by...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) livestreamed the “Citizens’ Discussion for Establishing Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases through the Green New Deal by 2050,” which touched on the policies for reducing greenhouse gases and the ways in which citizens can participate, at 2:30 p.m. on October 22. This discussion is a follow-up measure for the “2050...   Read more