Seocho ended a 300,000-person music festival with a cleaning parade, and people are calling the planner a genius
This one made me smile. The Seoripul Music Festival in Seocho-gu, Seoul, which drew about 300,000 people, ended with something called the 서리풀 청소 퍼레이드, the Seoripul cleaning parade.
After the festival, 112 people, including about 70 환경공무관 (sanitation workers) and local residents, cleaned up the space everyone had just left, and they did it as a parade, as the festival's finale. The idea was to put the sanitation workers in the spotlight as the hidden main characters of the event while they returned the street to normal. The TJB news clip's title quotes people saying "the planner is a real genius," and the Instiz post where I found it said "why do I tear up watching this," which is exactly how I felt. Small context: 환경공무관 is the newer official title some districts in Seoul use for street cleaners, a more respectful one than the old word. Usually the cleanup happens after everyone is gone and nobody sees it, so making it the finale is a nice change.
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- 🔗TJB News (YouTube) — "기획자 진짜 천재다"…축제 피날레 장식한 '청소 퍼레이드'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j468IztGHBw
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