A conceptual rendering of the redeveloped Yeouido Park / Courtesy of Seoul Metropolitan Government
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced a comprehensive master plan to redevelop Yeouido Park, aiming to transition the aging 48-acre green space into a culturally integrated waterfront landmark by 2030.
A consortium led by local landscape architecture firm Saram And Namu won the city's design competition with a proposal titled "Cultivating Yeouido Park Together." The blueprint uses a spatial philosophy of emptying and filling to seamlessly connect the financial district of Yeouido with the adjacent Han River and Saetgang tributary, erasing the stark concrete borders that currently isolate the park.
The revamp is timed to coincide with the construction of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts II, a major secondary municipal cultural complex slated to break ground inside the park limits in 2027.
"The winning design establishes an organic relationship between the urban streetscape and the natural park boundaries," said professor Kwon Jin-wook of Yeungnam University, head of the evaluation panel, praising its balance of open vistas and urban integration.
