Myeongil-dong Samik Green 2 to be rebuilt as 3,420-unit complex; 4,700 long-term jeonse units planned for Eunpyeong-gu

The Samik Green 2 apartment complex in Myeongil-dong, Gangdong-gu, Seoul — currently home to 2,400 units — will be rebuilt as a large-scale complex of 3,420 units. In Eunpyeong-gu, the Saejeo 2 transit-oriented area and the Bulgwang Station transit-oriented area will see ultra-high-rise apartment towers of 568 units and 4,092 units, respectively, following zoning upgrades.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it approved, with modifications, a proposal to designate a maintenance zone and revise the improvement plan for the Samik Green 2 apartment reconstruction project — along with a district unit plan revision and design review for the Amsa-Myeongil apartment district — at the 13th Urban Planning Committee meeting held Wednesday.

Under the improvement plan, the Samik Green 2 complex, completed in 1983, will be transformed into a residential complex of up to 45 stories with a total of 3,420 units, including 424 public housing units.

Four neighborhood and children's parks scattered across the site will be consolidated into a single neighborhood park of about 21,500 square meters. A public pedestrian walkway 8 meters wide will be built through the center of the complex, improving walking connections to nearby destinations including Myeongwon Elementary School, Wonter Neighborhood Park, and Godeok and Myeongil stations on subway Line 5.

The complex will be designed as an open, fence-free space, with community facilities such as a daycare center placed along roads and the public walkway to improve accessibility for local residents. To ease traffic, the city ordered the widening of Godeok-ro to the north of the complex and Gucheonmyeon-ro to the south.

Several other aging apartment complexes near Samik Green 2 are also undergoing reconstruction, including Myeongil Woosung, Myeongil Shindonga, Godeok Hyundai, Myeongil Hanyang and Godeok Jugong 9, for which improvement plans have recently been finalized and announced. Myeong No-jun, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Housing Bureau, said the decision would accelerate the full-scale reconstruction of Samik Green 2 and was expected to speed up the broader reshaping of the Myeongil-dong residential area in tandem with neighboring reconstruction projects.

The committee also approved, with modifications, a proposal to designate a maintenance zone and establish an improvement plan for an urban renewal-type redevelopment project for long-term jeonse housing in the Bulgwang Station transit-oriented area in Nokbeon-dong 125-1, Eunpyeong-gu. The site, adjacent to Bulgwang Station on subway Lines 3 and 6, has strong potential to become a key hub in the northwestern part of Seoul.

Under the decision, the site's zoning will be upgraded to third-class general residential and quasi-residential, allowing for a total of 4,092 apartment units of up to 45 stories with a floor-area ratio of up to 441.60 percent. Of these, 1,008 units will be secured as long-term jeonse housing, with 50 percent of those designated as "Mirinaezip," a long-term jeonse program for newlywed couples.

The city also ordered traffic improvements to match the high-density development. Nokbeon-ro will be widened from 15 meters to 25 meters to distribute regional traffic between Seooreung-ro and Tongil-ro, and a 20-meter-wide loop road will be built on the western and southern sides of the zone to ensure smooth vehicle circulation.

On the architectural and landscape side, two large visual corridors of at least 20 meters will be created facing the new roads and the city center to secure open sightlines and airflow. A large cultural park of 12,900 square meters will be built along Tongil-ro, with street-level neighborhood commercial facilities arranged around it.

At the same meeting, the committee approved, with modifications, a proposal to designate a maintenance zone and establish an improvement plan for long-term jeonse housing in the Saejeo 2 transit-oriented area in Eunpyeong-gu. The site will be rezoned to quasi-residential, and a total of 568 apartment units of up to 39 stories with a floor-area ratio of up to 405.8 percent are expected to be built. Of these, 152 units will be supplied as long-term jeonse housing, with the city planning to allocate 50 percent of those as Mirinaezip units for newlywed couples.

Infrastructure in the surrounding area will also be upgraded. Jeungsan 15-gil will be widened to 16 meters in coordination with the traffic management plan for the Jeungsan 5 zone to the south of the site, and a back road will also be expanded to 10 meters. A public pedestrian greenway will be created linking Sinsa Neighborhood Park through the Jeungsan 4 and 5 zones to Banhongsan, and street-level neighborhood commercial facilities will be placed along the Naereul Geonneo Sup-gil path running from Saejeo Station to the Bongsan cypress forest and the Naereul Geonneo Sup Library.