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Busan Metropolitan City Opens the “City Hall Roof Garden” to the Public

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will hold the “City Hall Roof Garden Opening Ceremony” today (November 5) at 10:30 a.m. at the rooftop garden on the 4th floor of City Hall, officially opening the “City Hall Roof Garden” (hereinafter referred to as the Roof Garden) to the public.

The Roof Garden was originally created in 2014 under the name “Haneul Madang” on the rooftop of the 4th floor of City Hall. Until now, it had been used mainly by city employees due to security considerations, but after facility improvements, it has been transformed into a public relaxation space and is now open to citizens.

Approximately 120 participants, including Mayor Park Heong-joon and children who applied to join the event, are expected to attend the opening ceremony to celebrate the occasion.

The Roof Garden has been reborn as a space where citizens can enjoy both a sense of the changing seasons and various engaging contents, along with rest and leisure.

A wide variety of seasonal flowers have been planted to allow visitors to feel the changes in nature, and additional rest areas have been installed throughout the site for convenience. The space also features an alley playground and greenhouse classroom as part of its experience-oriented content zones.

The Roof Garden will not only serve as a place for relaxation but will also host diverse programs for children.

In connection with “Deullak Nallak,” the children’s cultural complex inside City Hall, Busan will operate the “Wagle-Wagle Alley Playground” program (held every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., twice a day) for children’s play and learning.

Additionally, as a pilot project under the “Dream-Green (GREEN) Expedition” initiative — which combines small parks and kindergartens within the 15-Minute Living Zone — children from the City Hall daycare center will participate in hands-on gardening activities by directly tending the garden.

Starting today, the Roof Garden will be freely accessible to all citizens every day.

However, to ensure visitor safety, the open hours will be limited from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Access to the Roof Garden is available via the elevator located in the City Hall lobby.

Previously, access to the rooftop was restricted due to security measures implemented following the 2012 arson incident at the Seoul Government Complex and the subsequent Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s security improvement plan for local government buildings. As a result, the internal access gates (speed gates) within City Hall had prevented entry to the Roof Garden.

To resolve this, the City extended the lobby elevator directly to the 4th floor rooftop, enabling citizens to reach the Roof Garden without interference from internal building security.

Following the opening of the former mayor’s residence — now “Domohun” — to citizens in 2024, Busan Metropolitan City continues to enhance urban happiness by returning public spaces to everyday civic life through this new rooftop opening.

Since its opening in September last year, Domohun has become a cultural space visited by 360,000 citizens. The City expects the Roof Garden to similarly become a relaxing urban retreat for visitors to City Hall.

Mayor Park Heong-joon stated,
“By concretizing the 15-Minute City policy, we are bringing positive changes to the happiness of citizens in their daily lives. Following last year’s transformation of the former mayor’s residence into Domohun, a cultural space for citizens, we are now opening the long-underutilized rooftop of City Hall to the public to continue building the 15-Minute City Busan together. I ask for our citizens’ active participation and interest.”