Dunamu announced on the 25th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul City and the Korea Arboretum and Garden Management Institute to create a corporate participation garden for the '2025 Seoul International Garden Expo'. The signing ceremony was held at the Seoul City Hall Seosomun 2 Building in Seoul, where Lee Seok-woo, CEO of Dunamu, Seoul City Garden City Director Lee Su-yeon, and National Garden Culture Center Director Han Dong-gil discussed cooperation measures.
Through this agreement, Dunamu will create a 'Second Forest: Digital Healing Garden' at the '2025 Seoul International Garden Expo' to be held at Boramae Park from May 22 to October 20. The digital healing garden is a virtual forest implemented based on Dunamu's technological capabilities, aiming to create a garden that anyone can easily enjoy. It plans to provide an immersive experience that makes visitors feel as if they are in nature by combining media facades, sounds, and various sensory elements.
This garden goes beyond a simple exhibition space, carrying a message of coexistence between nature and humans for a sustainable future. Designed for disaster response personnel suffering from PTSD, patients with mobility difficulties, and their families, it symbolically expresses a cycle of healing and recovery. The digital healing garden was previously showcased as a pop-up exhibition in Seoul's Seongsu-dong in 2024 and was also recognized as an outstanding public sector innovation case in Korea by the OECD Public Sector Innovation Collaborative (OPSI) in 2023.
During the expo, Dunamu plans to operate various programs centered around the digital healing garden. The 'Seed Vault Non-Fungible Token Collection' biodiversity conservation project will also be conducted on-site, with proceeds used to create the third rare and native plant conservation area. Additionally, they will recruit garden participating institutions and host a mental and physical recovery program competition, with winning entries to be reflected in the digital healing garden's operations.
Seoul City Garden City Director Lee Su-yeon stated, "This expo will be a citizen festival encompassing various sights and experiences" and "Seoul will continue to expand public-private cooperation projects for a sustainable urban environment as a garden city." Dunamu CEO Lee Seok-woo said, "The digital healing garden is an experiment in future gardens where technology and nature harmonize" and "We want to deliver warm comfort and a new sense of inspiration to visitors of the expo."
