Ganghwa County Nears Completion of Southern Ganghwa Municipal Kids Cafe

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Ganghwa County announced on the 12th that construction of the Southern Ganghwa Municipal Kids Cafe, a campaign pledge from the seventh popular election administration, is in the final stages ahead of its official opening in March of next year.

The Southern Ganghwa Municipal Kids Cafe is a project aimed at creating an indoor play space where parents and children can enjoy healing together. The project is being developed over 998.78 square meters at 470-4 Onsu-ri, Gilsang-myeon (adjacent to Ganghwa Senior Cultural Center), with a project budget of 3.9 billion won.

The kids cafe play space, selected through public recruitment, was designed by incorporating Ganghwa County's major tourist attractions. The indoor play facilities include tightrope walking at Jeondeungsa Ginkgo Tree, Choji Fortress Maze, climbing Manisan Dangun Gaecheon Road (featuring a 13.5-meter oversized slide and climbing wall), growth playground, and interactive play video with motion sensors.

Additionally, the facility features a 10-meter-high dolmen climbing play structure that adults can experience together, as well as parent rest areas including nail art and foot massage experience rooms, nursing rooms, and a mom cafe, ensuring that not only children but parents can also enjoy the facility.

The third-floor multipurpose hall will be equipped with stage lighting to serve as a meeting and lecture space for residents and a complex cultural space offering puppet shows and small performances for children.

County Governor Yu Cheon-ho, who visited the construction site on the 8th, stated, "The creation of an indoor play space where children, who will shape our future, can enjoy healing with their parents is expected to promote physical and emotional health of children," and added, "Going forward, we will continuously expand indoor play spaces where entire families can enjoy together to create a regional environment ideal for raising children."

Meanwhile, the county plans to conduct installation and safety inspections and trial operations to ensure safe facility operation before the official opening in March of next year. The county also plans to add a Northern Ganghwa Municipal Kids Cafe spanning 1,270 square meters within the Ganghwa Complex Community Center, currently under construction in Namsan-ri, Ganghwa-eup, by the end of next year.