Seoul Plaza ( Korean : 서울광장 ) is a central plaza located in front of Seoul City Hall at Taepyeongno , Jung District, Seoul , South Korea. It was reopened on 1 May 2004, by Seoul Metropolitan Government , with the purpose of providing the public an open space. It is part of the city's plans for environmentally friendly renovation projects such as the Cheonggye Stream and Gwanghwamun Plaza .
6-403: The site was originally a traffic square with a 40-year-old fountain that was demolished and the nearby space was renovated. Seoul Plaza is elliptical in shape, covering 3,995 pyeong (13,207 m) in total and 1,904 pyeong (6,294 m) for grass area. An underground water tank was installed along with 48 lighting around the grass square. The underground tank stores rain water for use in the sprinklers on
12-427: A garret as 1½ py. In South Korea , the unit has been officially banned since 1961 but with little effect prior to the criminalization of its commercial use effective 1 July 2007. Informal use continues, however, including in the form of real estate use of unusual fractions of meters equivalent to unit amounts of pyeong . Real estate listings on major websites such as Daum show measurements in square meters with
18-400: A square bu ( ja:步 ) or ken , equivalent to 36 square Chinese or Japanese feet . In Korea, the period of Japanese occupation produced a pyeong of 400 / 121 or 3.3058 m . It is the standard traditional measure for real estate floorspace , with an average house reckoned as about 25 pyeong , a studio apartment as 8–12 py, and
24-550: The pyeong equivalent. In Taiwan, the Taiwanese ping was introduced in the period of Taiwan under Japanese rule , which remains in fairly common use and is about 3.305 m . In Japan, the usual measure of real estate floorspace is the tatami and the tsubo is reckoned as two tatami . The tatami varies by region but the modern standard is usually taken to be the Nagoya tatami of about 1.653 m , producing
30-561: The Plaza has hosted an open air ice-rink from mid-December to February the following year, following which are replaced with green lawn and the fountain operational again. [REDACTED] Media related to Seoul Plaza at Wikimedia Commons Pyeong A pyeong (abbreviation py ) is a Korean unit of area and floorspace , equal to a square kan or 36 square Korean feet . The ping and tsubo are its equivalent Taiwanese and Japanese units , similarly based on
36-613: The lawn. The plaza has been the site of protests against US beef imports in South Korea , and Korea Queer Culture Festival . The plaza was also the Starting Line of The Amazing Race Australia 4 . As of 1 June 2011, the Plaza along with Gwanghwamun Plaza are designated as smoke-free zones by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. Smokers are fined ₩100,000 in violation. Every winter since 2004,
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