Overview
- City officials confirmed an underground shelter will be integrated into a new public housing complex in Garak-dong, Songpa-gu, on the former Seongdong Detention Center site.
- The refuge area is planned at 2,147 square meters with capacity for up to 1,020 people at a time.
- Air filtration, water storage and supply, and sanitation systems are designed to support occupants for up to 14 days during nuclear, biological or chemical emergencies.
- The facility will operate as a community fitness center in peacetime within the broader residential development.
- The project is part of the Defense Seoul 2030 program, with officials citing North Korea’s recent weapons displays and wider global instability as key motivations, and noting most existing shelters are not NBC-rated.