SUNCHEON, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Urban Regeneration Festival will take place in Suncheon, a South Jeolla Province city about 415 kilometers south of Seoul, next week, offering a rare opportunity to look into the future of cities, the municipal government said Friday. The festival will be held from Oct. 24-26 in Suncheon’s [...]
TAEBAEK, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Jangseong-dong in Taebaek, Gangwon Province, once a bustling mining town now left abandoned, is returning as a testbed for urban regeneration. Various regeneration projects are being prepared at the old town to revive the local economy that once depended on the coal industry. Taebaek city officials flew out of [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to foster the creation of town management cooperatives to promote resident participation in the New Deal Project for Urban Regeneration. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) announced on Thursday that it will sign an agreement with the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency, [...]