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Restoring Unity Beach: a volunteer-led project in Seoul

Volunteers are restoring Unity Beach in Seoul; $1,700 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea1,883 views
Eun-kyung Kyung-mi Joo
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Seoul
Unity Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 67 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 198 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $1,700 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $690 • Tools and protective gear: $400 • Waste removal and skip hire: $490 • Signage and educational materials: $120 Thanks for reading all this.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Eun-kyung

  1. Small update. $1,989 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.

  2. We're at 68% thanks to 12 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.

  3. Quick update: $895 raised so far (53%). I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Isaac Garba Daramola

    wishing you peace, Eun-kyung. Great idea, hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Greetings from Kharkiv.

    • Vũ Lieu

      sending good thoughts, Eun-kyung. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Take care

      • Sachin K. Arora

        Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Love from Pasig

        • Ksenia Elena Filippov

          hang in there, Eun-kyung. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Greetings from Mumbai.

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