Brief Description : Seoul city made decision to turn a closed horse racing ground into a public park in 2003. The area is 1,156,498㎡ located Sungsoo-dong. In June 2003, a public hearing with the local residents were held and the next month master plan and design work were commissioned. On the 28th December 2003 construction work was started and in June 2005 another landmark urban park was opened. More than 168.8 billion Korean Won was poured into to purchase the land and additional 66.4 billion Won was spent for design, construction, and other fees.
In an international open competition for the plan of the park, Dongsimwon Landscape Co. Ltd. (President, G. D. Ahn) and Professor K. J. Zoh team together with DaeWoo Engineering Co. won the first prize.
