Dongducheon City Reenters Race to Host International Skating Rink, Reassesses 89,007-Square-Meter Candidate Site

Dongducheon City Prepares for Reopened Bidding for Taereung Replacement Facility
Assesses Prospects for Securing the Site, Accessibility, and Economic Feasibility

Dongducheon City in Gyeonggi Province is re-entering the race to host the replacement facility for the Taereung International Skating Rink, as the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee moves to reopen the bidding process.

Dongducheon City’s renewed bid to host the International Skating Rink (artist’s rendering). Provided by Dongducheon City.

Dongducheon City, led by Mayor Park Hyungdeok, said on the 13th that it would revise its hosting strategy based on the 89,007-square-meter (approximately 26,924-pyeong) candidate site it previously proposed. The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee is moving to reopen the bidding process after changing the conditions to include additional auxiliary facilities for national team training and stronger requirements for the stability and economic feasibility of securing the site.

The city is highlighting its experience in identifying and proposing a large candidate site during the previous bidding process as its greatest strength. It believes that using the existing site would not only significantly reduce the administrative effort and time required to find a new site, but also allow it to further specify plans for securing the site and conditions for development.

Accordingly, the city plans to closely analyze the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee’s schedule for the reopened bidding process and its revised evaluation criteria, then comprehensively assess the existing candidate site’s accessibility, economic feasibility, and suitability for development to draw up a tailored hosting strategy.

Dongducheon City expects that securing the international skating rink would expand the local sports infrastructure and become a key driver of regional economic growth through the development of the sports industry.

A Dongducheon City official said, "Having already proposed a large candidate site and assessed the project’s feasibility, we will maximize the strengths of the existing site in line with the revised bidding requirements and make every effort to secure the project."

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