SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A new footbridge will be built next year to connect Seoul Station with Seoullo 7017, a sky garden for pedestrians in central Seoul, the municipal government said Monday. The Seoul government said it will sign an MOU on the Seoul Station footbridge project with the Korea Rail Network Authority [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to Seoullo 7017, an overpass-turned-walkway in central Seoul, recently reached 20 million, the city government said Wednesday. The milestone comes almost two-and-half years after May 2017, when the Seoul Metropolitan Government opened the elevated garden and pathway on the remains of an old overpass as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of visitors to the overpass-turned-park Seoullo 7017 surpassed the 3 million mark as of Sunday as the site celebrated its 100th day since its opening, the Seoul city government said. The number of users reached 3.61 million on Aug. 23, since the public park converted from an [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoullo 7017, the city’s ambitious urban renewal project that transformed a 40-year-old overpass near Seoul Station into an eco-friendly sky bridge, finally opened to public on Saturday amid high anticipation, and some skepticism. The project was launched in 2014 when Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon announced plans for Seoul’s own [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Citizens have been taken aback by the horrific sight of a 17-meter-high, 100-meter-long array of worn out shoes that has been undergoing construction in front of Seoul Station over the past couple of days. As it turns out, the three-ton “installation art” was being arranged to celebrate the completion [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoullo 7017, Seoul’s much-anticipated urban renewal project that is set to open next Saturday, will feature blue LED lamps and flower pots, transforming a decommissioned overpass into what Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon describes as a place where “nature and humans can coexist”. Every night the overpass-turned-walkway in front of Seoul [...]