For 15 years from 1978 to 1993, Nanji-do was a landfill for Seoul City’s garbage. Used charcoal briquettes and other waste produced during the course of city development piled up to form a mountain of trash. By the 1990s, the mountain had reached a height of 95 meters and a length of two kilometers, even after being compressed into a rectangular shape that weighed over 120 million tons. When considering that the height of Mt. Nam-san in Seoul is 262 meters, this mass of trash is almost unimaginable.
From 1996, Seoul began to launch stabilization projects to withhold further industrial developments and build facilities to prevent the environmental contamination caused by the landfill zone. The stabilization projects included reinforcing the inclines of the landfill that were on the verge of collapsing, minimizing the sludge from the trash and collecting harmful gases through gas. The gas accumulated in the process will be utilized as the heat energy necessary for heating nearby facilities of Seoul World Cup Stadium and the Sangam Housing Development Area.
The re-engineered region was first designated a housing development zone in March 1997.
A ‘New Seoul Town Development’ project was announced when Mr. Goh Kun became mayor in July 1998. In August of the same year, the general planning for New Seoul Town project began to take form. Based on this, a master plan was established for the Millennium City (Sangam New Millennium Town). Along with drawing up a city plan to turn the Sangam region into a secondary center of Seoul, a subsequent plan was drafted to build a gateway town that embodies both information and ecology.
The plan is now being carried out in concrete, and encompasses separate projects such as World Cup Park, an environmentally friendly housing complex and Digital Media City.
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