SNU College of Engineering Holds the 6^th Traditional Culture Sharing Event for Chuseok

-Participation of foreign transfer students and local Gwanak residents
-Fond memories made at the rooftop rainwater garden


< SNU College of Engineering’s Traditional Culture Sharing Event for Chuseok >

 
 
On the 21^st of September, SNU College of Engineering held its 6^th Chuseok Traditional Culture Sharing Event in its rooftop rainwater garden for their foreign transfer students.           
 
Being held in particular for the foreign transfer students, the event was hosted by SNU College of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Professor Moo Young Han), the Gwanak Urban Agricultural Network (CEO: Yeo Yongok), and the Dagyeong Flower Tea Institute and was supported by the Institute for Global Social Responsibility (IGSR).
 
The participants of this event include 30 foreign transfer students of SNU from countries like Vietnam, Poland, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, 20 local Gwanak residents, faculty members and professors from SNU who gathered together to make fond memories through traditional folk experiences like making songpyeon, sharing of traditional snacks, tuho, jegichagi and gonggi.
 
"I participated with my family and had a great time," said Bui Thi Thuy (31. female. Ph.D. program) from Vietnam. "Understanding the meaning of a traditional Korean festival and experiencing the various traditional games first hand was a truly enjoyable experience," she added.
 
In particular, the rooftop of Building 35, where the event was held, makes this event all the more meaningful because it is a concave rainwater garden that was developed in April 2013. The SNU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering developed the once abandoned space into a concave rainwater garden and opened it to the local residents and students. It was recognized as a "friendly space" that strengthens ties between the university and its local region through the growing of crops.

 

< SNU College of Engineering Professor Moo Young Han >

 
"The concave terrace rainwater garden reduces electricity fees of the topmost floor, minimizes the heat island effect of the building, and prevents flooding by instantaneously storing the rainwater," said SNU Professor Moo Young Han who led the rainwater garden project. "If the rooftop of government-owned buildings, local governments' community centers, libraries, and schools are developed into such concave rainwater gardens, it will not only promote agricultural cultivation but will be potentially utilized as a space for activating the local community," he explained.