Eunma Apartments in Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, will be reborn as a complex with up to 49 floors and 5,893 households.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government said on the 27th that, at the 3rd integrated review committee for maintenance projects on the 26th, a conditional (reporting) approval was granted for the integrated review across eight areas—architecture, landscape, traffic, education, environment, fire safety, disaster, and parks—regarding the Eunma Apartments reconstruction maintenance project.
Eunma Apartments, a representative large, aging complex in Gangnam, passed the urban planning committee review in September last year, finalizing the maintenance plan. This integrated review comes about six months after that.
Alongside the reconstruction of Eunma Apartments, two parks for local residents will be created at the Daechi-dong cram school district (Eunma Apartments Entrance intersection) and around Hangnyeoul station. About 380 public parking spaces will be installed in an underground garage beneath a small park near the Daechi-dong cram school district to address illegal parking. An open library for students will be created on the south side of the park. A 40,000-cubic-meter retention tank will be installed beneath the neighborhood park toward Hangnyeoul station to prevent flooding around Daechi station.
A 20-meter-wide public pedestrian passage will be created running north to south through the center of the complex. It will connect to the public pedestrian passage at the Daechi Mido Apartments, where reconstruction has been decided, and to a three-dimensional pedestrian bridge crossing Yangjaecheon. Along the public pedestrian passage, open facilities for local residents—such as daycare centers, kindergartens, and senior centers—will be created.
For the first time in a maintenance project, "public sale dwellings" will be introduced. It is the first case of combining public sales with a privately led reconstruction. By applying the special floor area ratio for transit areas (300%→331.9%), an additional 655 households will be supplied. Of these, 195 households will be supplied as public sale dwellings for actual demand, such as middle-class families with multiple children. The remaining 227 households will be private sale, and 233 households will be public rental.
Reflecting the results of this integrated review, Eunma Apartments plans to complete approval of the project implementation plan within this year, obtain approval of the management and disposal plan next year, and begin construction in 2030.
Choi Jin-seok, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Government's Housing Bureau, said, "The passage of the integrated review for Eunma Apartments, a symbol of Gangnam-area reconstruction, will be a successful case of applying the Fast-Track Integrated Planning 2.0," and added, "The Seoul Metropolitan Government will do its best with a goal of breaking ground on 310,000 households by 2031."