The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) started its eco-mileage program in 2009 to incentivize energy saving in everyday life. Over the past twelve years from September 2009 to July 2021, one in five Seoul citizens participated in the program, reducing CO2 emission by 2.387 million tons to combat climate change. The program has seen an afforestation...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), the Ministry of Environment (ME) and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) entered into an agreement to jointly establish an environmental education infrastructure with the goal of climate crisis response and preparing for a sustainable future. The SMG, ME and SMOE will build “Eco School,” an environmental education facility...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) signed an MOU with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) on June 8 to respond to climate crisis and promote their Urban Forest Project. The SMG and HSBC’s collaborative Urban Forest Project is an ecological restoration project that aims to create urban forests to improve urban air quality, reduce...   Read more

“Pedestrian Forest Path” on Sejong-daero, which has been newly revamped as a representative pedestrian street in Seoul that connects the city center with people, culture and natural greenery, is open to the public this spring. In April, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) completed the construction project for Pedestrian Forest Path on Sejong-daero with the objective...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is planning to create modular parks that can be easily installed in various places in eight locations (i.e. Gangnam Station, Seoul Forest Station, Bangbae Café Street, etc.) by the first half of this year to improve the city’s landscape and reduce particulate matter levels. This modular park project is about...   Read more

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 lives. 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