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Seoul City will open and operate sledding slopes in the Ttukseom Hangang (River) Park during the period from December 17th, 2016 to February 19th, 2017 to help citizens enjoy the winter with their family close to home. The operating hours are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, seven days a week. Operating hours may be adjusted...   Read more

“Seoul Christmas Market” will be held in the event square of Yeouido Park (Exit No. 2 of Yeouinaru Station) for 11 days from Dec. 21st to 31st in 2016. It opens from 5 pm to 10:30 pm on weekdays andfrom3 pm to 9 pm on weekends. This Seoul Christmas Market is organized under the theme...   Read more

Large cities in developing countries are using the effective administrative policies of Seoul as benchmarks and striving to learn from its experiences in connection with their efforts to solve urban problems like water shortages, traffic congestion, and environmental pollution. Seeing such efforts, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, jointly with Arirang TV, made a special documentary film...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government will run an ice skating rink and a sledding slope in Yeouido Park in 2016, for the second year since 2015, to revitalize the use of the park in winter. In 2016, it will also run a sledding slope, snow playground, food markets and food trucks to provide a variety of...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government held “the countermeasure meeting for citizen safety in winter” in which Mayor of Seoul Park Won-soon participated. Seoul examined measures for preventing fires at traditional marketplaces, an outbreak of AI (avian influenza), and illegal forced demolition and protecting the underprivileged class in order to ensure the safety of citizens in winter....   Read more

In order to increase the efficiency of public transportation near Songpa-gu, Seoul Metropolitan Government will be completing the underground construction of “Jamsil Metropolitan Transfer Center” (Songpadae-ro Jamsil Station to Seokchon Lake Bridge) and operate public buses in the area. Jamsil Metropolitan Transfer Center is a transfer facility where people can transfer between buses and the...   Read more

Seoul was selected as the “World’s Best MICE City in 2016” by “Business Traveler US” and “Global Traveler,” the most prestigious media in business tourism, after the city received the same title in 2015. ※ MICE: Service industry that includes four fields of meeting, incentives, convention and exhibition. Seoul was named as “Best International Business...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government conferred honorary citizenship to San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee and presented him the citizenship certificate on Dec. 1st, 2016. Particularly, the year 2016 marks the 40th anniversary since the establishment of the sister city relationship between the two cities in May 1976. Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon held a performance celebrating...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has established an elderly friendly street called “Rakui Street” in the area of Tapgol Park in Jongno-gu and completed “Aging Service Design,” applied with seven detailed design items “Rakui 7.” The “Aging Service Design” project is a project to develop the area into a specialized street by improving various fields, such...   Read more

Park Won-Soon, Mayor of Seoul and 48 university presidents will launch a ‘Campus Town Policy Council’ in order to jointly deal with youth problems such as youth unemployment and housing insecurity and to revitalize stagnated college areas. ‘The Campus Town Policy Council’ is a dedicated government group that will be the key driving force of...   Read more

Seoul has decided to close the Seoul Plaza Ice Skating Rink in 2016. Considering the fact that opening the skating rink in Seoul Plaza in December every year is a “promise to the citizens,” Seoul tried to open the skating rink, even though the construction has been postponed for a week, but the city decided...   Read more

Seoul Metropolitan City will open ‘Urban SDG Knowledge Platform’ on December 1st, 2016 in cooperation with UNESCAP and CityNet. The platform will serve as a forum for sharing urban problem-solving policies and communication. Sharing policies will help cities around the world reduce budgets, shorten the implementation period, reduce trial and error, and ultimately contribute to...   Read more