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Public contest

Eco-Design Startup Public Contest
  • Supporting for Upcycle product development Support for upcycle product development program serves to enhance the products and services of (prospective) entrepreneurs who are actively engaged in the upcycle field.
  • Virtual office support project This project serves to provide business registration addresses in the form of a lease contract by allocating unassigned seats in open communal spaces.
  • Gourmet Contest This event aims to discover fresh ideas from citizens through an eco-friendly cooking contest geared toward environmental protection, featuring eco-friendly agricultural and fishery products, vegan food, unsalable fruits, and upcycled food, and help them practice ecofriendly cuisine in their daily lives.
The silver prize winner of 2021 K-upcycle design contest : KIM Hye jin
Citizen Participation Contest
  • Upcycle Design Contest This event is a nationwide contest that discovers citizens' brilliant ideas, awards prize money, and uses them as exhibition and program content at Gwangmyeong Upcycle Art Center. Every year, upcycle ideas from the general public are gathered to be discovered under various topics.
  • Living Lab for Our Neighborhood Environmental problem “Living lab for our neighborhood environmental problem” operated by Gwangmyeong Upcycle Art Center is a living lab-style eco-design research and development support project. Support is provided to citizens in identifying pressing environmental issues in their daily lives and exploring alternatives to address them. The resources necessary to the public are connected to local residents as well as organizations and companies with an active local presence, allowing them to participate and solve environmental problems arising within Gwangmyeong City. A cooperation system between citizens, the private sector, and the general public is created to facilitate excellent ideas that develop into future products and services or advance to the commercialization stage.
  • Citizen supporters Upcycle Art Center supporters are strong supporters who practice resource circulation and upcycling firsthand and introduce the center's various activities through social media to promote the center and upcycle culture to the general public.
Hwansang Market
  • Hwansang Market Hwansang Market, which embodies ‘a marketplace that cherishes the environment,’ is an event designed to increase accessibility for citizens to easily appreciate and explore environmental- friendly eco-design products and to expand product sales channels for small business owners and startups. With the positive response of many citizens and the participation of companies, it has been operated annually since 2020, and ‘Hwansim merchants’ (merchants who care about the environment) directly operate sales booths through a screening process. They display and sell various products that can contribute to carbon reduction, including upcycled design products, eco-friendly cultural content products, class kits, and zero-waste household items. It is an eco-friendly market that coexists with the local community with part of the sales proceeds being donated through the Gwangmyeong City Social Welfare Council and used to support vulnerable groups in social welfare blind spots.
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