5. What is
Sungmisan Networks of large and small communities
Town?
Concept • Network of city culture and living
• Around 1,000 people
Size • Family-oriented community (age: 30-40’s)
(Gradually expanding)
Large and
• 40-50 organization, shops, and gatherings
small
• Each unit works as independent community
community
6. Town History Accidental beginning, enlightenment, and new planning
Initial Town Expansion Transformation
(1994~2000) (2001~2003) (2003~2010) (2011~)
Consumer
Support for
Cooperative of cooperative, Various experiments
neighboring
community rearing campaign to protect and trials
Sungmisan town community
2003. Mapo Solidarity
2004. Sungmisan
Cooperative of 2001. Mapo Dorei School
children rearing for the Consumer Cooperative 2005. Cool Earthworm 2007. Street Festivals
1st time in the country 2002. Woori Town 2005. Mapo Hope 2008. Initializing
Dream Shelter Sharing various cooperatives
1994. Woori Nursery 2002. Pine Tree Nursery 2005. Community 2009. Town coming-of-
1995. Flying Nursery 2001~3. Succeeded in Radio age ceremony
protecting Sungmisan 2007. People and Town 2010. Mapo Poolnet
Town with the 2008. Participation in 2010. Sungmisan Table
campaign residents’ council
2009. Sungmisan
Theater
7. Education System
• Nursery
• Alternative school
• After-school program
• Humanities study of Town
• Coming-of-age ceremony
• Lifecycle system
8. Cooperative of children rearing : Woori, Pin
Tree, Sungmisan, Ttobagi
• Child-care facilities with cooperative parenting
• Operation : Cooperative BOD in charge of operation and the Teachers
Association of nurseries in charge of education
• Communication : Teacher representative sitting on BOD, meetings by age,
general assembly of cooperative members, and various committees
• Characterized by organic meals, daily outing, and integrated education (age
and gender)
• Nursery: Woori(Sept. 1994), Pine Tree(Sept. 2002), Sungmisan(2005),
Ttobagi(2005)
9. Cooperative of children rearing, After-
school of Children: Acorn
• Foundation : began as an annex to Woori Nursery in 1996 and opened in
1999 as an independent institution
• Characteristics : For public elementary school students with the 1st to 4th
grade for care after school
• Operation : up to 7 p.m from after-school
10. Dream shelter
• Foundation : In Aug. 2002, founded as Woori Town Dream Shelter, an annex
to Mapo Durei Customer Cooperative
• 성격 : 2007년 ‘꿈터택견’으로 독립함. • Contents: Takken Room,
Cycling excursion – Program
open to the outside, after-
school program
Door of Dance
• Foundation : Aug. 2007
• Feature : Sori Dance and dancing
therapy is independently established as
derived from Woori Town Dream
Shelter
11. Sungmisan School_Alternative school
• Opened in Sept. 2004
• Unauthorized urban alternative school (w/o
dorm and playground)
• 12-year system for primary and secondary
education. The disabled children are
admitted (10% of quota), a town school
• Currently over 170 students are enrolled
• Teacher : 40 in total including 25 regular
teachers, instructors and volunteers
• Operated in its own building
12. Town learning center
• Began in 2004 winter break
• In the beginning, programs for break were
operated
• Now programs are planned all year around
• Participants : Break – 200 students, b/w breaks–
120 students
• Chosen as a best practice by Seoul city in 2007
13. Coming-of-Age program
• Began in 2009 for those born in 1989
• Scheduled in every May
• Passing ritual for the youth grown in the community
14. Town culture
• Festivals
• Clubs
• Tuning to life cycle
• Enjoy on one’s own
• Sense of belonging
15. Town festivals
In 2011
Street festivals in 2007(From street into
community)
Bystreet festivals in 2008 (From
bystreets into life)
16. Art and culture club : Adults-centered voluntary participation
Plat club- Moomalrangyee
(dried slice of radish)
Band- Ama
Band
Sungmisan band
for Korean
instrument
Drawing club
17. Photo club – Town photo
shop Female humanities study – Mom Poomatsi
Poem and music club – Sei No Chae
Film-making club – Mul Tteunei
18. Sungmisan theater
• Opened in Feb. 2009 and certified as a social
enterprise in Dec. 2010
• Culture and art complex within residential area
• Citizen space Naru(Women association, Green
transportation, environmental justice) offering space
• Prospect : Culture and welfare are combined in
community. Develop toward self-controlled
community!
19. Annual Plan in the Community
Tree planting_Apr.
Sports day_Oct.
Jisinbarbgi _Feb Complaining day_Dec.
Town festival-May
20. Town Company
• 20 in total
• Voluntarily as needed
• Sustainability, not for
competition
21. Mapo Durei Consumer Cooperative
• Foundation : March 2000. Beginning with 100 households expanded to 5,500
households in 2011
• Initial leading party : Members of cooperatives for children rearing
• Expansion: Incorporated in 2003. Shop 1 in Songsan-dong, shop 2 in
Yonggang-dong, shop 3 in Jungrang-gu. Annual revenue at KRW4bn in 2010
22. Reuse stores
• Foundation: Nov. 2007
• Not for profit
• Cooperatives with 14 volunteers
• Reuse stores, local currency circulation, various classes and
Bozagi market
• For purchase: 50% in cash + 50% in local currency
23. Hanttam Durei
• Foundation : beginning as small
gathering for sewing
• Led by 8 members in cooperation
community of moms
• Products: buckwheet pillow,
handkerchief, cotton sanitary napkins,
bags, clothing
Soap Durei
• Foundation : Dec. 2008
• Led by 3 members. in cooperation
community of moms
• Products : Natural soaps, aroma
therapy products
24. Sungmisan school Minishop Bakery
• Opened in June 2009
• Workplace affiliated to Sungmisan
School(Café and Bakery)
• Products : Organic hand-made cookie,
muffin, cake
• Parents and the disabled are employed.
Social jobs are supported
Sungmisan Craft Shop
• Opened in Sungmisan School in June 2009
and moved to 2F Sohangju in Apr. 2011
• Workshop for both disabled and non-
disabled supported by Sungmisan School
• Products : Natural beeswax candle, wool-
felting, Waldorf doll
25. Sohangju(Happpy houses with good
communication)_Construction company for multi-housing
• Co-housing(multi-housing) builder : “Sharing”,
nor “possessing”
• Experties in forming communities. The second
construction in underway
• 2 Co-representatives + 2 employees
• Run as a corporation
Sungmisan Vault_Financial safetynet
• Voluntary cooperation system
• Begin in Mar. 2011
• 11 associated members
• Social investment support
foundation: KRW15mn in grant
26. Town Kitchen
• Foundation : May 2002
• Led by 8 moms
• Sells organic side dishes (w/ 3
employees)
• Revenues enough to pay for wages and
management
• Customers can buy snack and meal
with mileage, and welcomed by
working man and wife
27. Café Small Tree
• Opened in Oct. 2004, dealing with organic ice cream under the name of “Tree
with shadow” and being renamed “Small Tree” in Mar. 2007
• Founded by 5 mothers → Taken over by one person → Entrusted operation to
teachers of Sungmisan School → Expanded through residents’
investment(invested by 150 residents)
• Wednesday Night Concert, Candle Night, Town Photo Exhibition are held and
served as cultural space and community space.
28. Sungmisan Table_ Organic Restaurant
• Demand for organic restaurant by residents : Voluntary project
• 10 investors began cooking in Spring 2009 : Cooking class and visit to
environment-friendly restaurant
• Open in Apr. 4, 2010: 90 investors (Individuals and organizations), a town
company
• Material sourcing : Direct trade with producers + Durei Consumer Cooperative
• In search of continuous changes
29. Pulbanggury_ a town shop
• Opened in June 2011
• Applied for town enterprise
registration to the government
• Selling the community products
• Employing two people
Rila_Healing and art
• Open in Dec. 2010
• Feminine: Shelter for
healing and art
• Membership + program,
Relaxing
30. Town
Classification
Company
• Cooperative : Mapo Durei consumer cooperative(for profit+not-for-profit)
• Town company : Café small tree, Sungmisan Table, Town Kitchen, Sungmisan Theater, Pulbangguri
• Workshop : Soap Durei, Hanttam Durei, Sungmisan Craft Shop
• Not-for-Profit shop : Reuse Store
• Experimental enterprise : Minishop Bakery, Sohangju
• Sustainable Community Space : Tree with shadow, Carpenters planting tree
• Finance Safetynet : Sungmisan Vault, Sungmisan United Savings Club
• Others : Sungmisan Learning Center, Dream Shelter Takkeun, Door of Dance, King of Culture and
Play, Rila
• Sole proprietor : Salon de Marang • Failure/cancellation : Car
Hospital, Ddeuk Durei
31. Support for Neighboring
Community
• Community Space – Network-
oriented
• Sustainable and Independent
32. Carpenters planting tree_Carpenters shop
• Woodwork
community(membership)+
wooden products on sale
(Make to order, Recycling)
• Inviting investors
• Center of community
activities of Sungsan 2 dong
Community Network ‘Place’_Cafe
• Community center(Day for child care, Night
for man), Learning center(After-school
program, Residents training programs), Club
meeting, cultural programs
• Coffee and tea, beer, snack for kids
• 2F, Carpenters planting tree
33. Tree with shadow_community space
• Independent community space, located in
Yeomridong, Mapo
• Its own income + sponsorship
• Reuse store + cafe+meeting place+Hope Truck
• Led by Democratic Labor party +Consumer
cooperative+community residents
35. 1st Sungmisan protection campaign(2001~2003)
May 2001 2001~2003 Jan. to Jul. 2003 May 17, 2003 Aug. 18, 2003
Announcement of Sungmisan Opinion
Physical Cancellation
building water- protection forming
supply reservoir resistance (Public hearing) of the plan
campaign
plan
Cropped Sungmisan(after Jan. 29, 2003) Reforestation of Sungmisan underway
(2006)
36. Demonstration
in Winter
(Late Jan. 2003)
Protest at the entrance
Resisting forklift entry(Mar. 13) (Mar. 13, 2003)
Public hearing(May 2003)
37. 2nd Sungmisan Protection Campaign(2008~2011)
Jan. 2008 2008 2009 2010 2011
Launch of Filing complaints, Passage of Stopping
residents action resistance, and construction plan Sungmisan Court ruling
committee proposals to Seoul at Seoul City disruption
City Council
40. Welfare Mapo Hope Sharing – Care Durei
Mapo Hope Sharing
• Founded in 2005
• Provide side dishes, house chore service, and support for
moving
• House repair
• Provide psychology counseling, mentoring for study to
students
• Counseling – help those on dole recognize their rights
Care Durei
• Care system based on community
• Education and operation of senior
care givers
• Senior care durei meeting
41. Local currency
• Trade labor and articles of members with
local currency
• “First step,” the experimental assembly for
local currency : 39 members (as of June
2009) ‘Arum’(Currency unit) – Cyber
money
• Reuse store : ‘Duru’ being used(Currency
unit)
• Mapo Durei consumer coop : begin using
the currency in Jul. 2009
Sungmisan United
Savings Club
• Founded in 2005
• For mutual aid and friendship
• Town funding : Reuse store, Small Tree
• Aim to be a town financial institution
• 90 members as of 2011
42. Disbanded
Sungmisan Car Hospital Cooperative
• Founded in Nov. 2003 with 120 members
on investment of KRW110mn
• Korea- first body shop cooperative
• Disbanded due to loss accumulation in
Feb. 2009
Mapo Solidarity for participation and self-
governance
• Founded in Mar. 2002 with 200 people
• School meal ordinance legislation filing,
District office audit team, creation of
Mapo Hope sharing, Tree-planting,
preparation of town festivals, Cycling
campaign
• Disbanded due to inactivity in Feb. 2009
43. Disbanded
Organization
Pulipsae After-school Nursery
• Established in Jan. 1999 – mainly with kids
from Flying Nursery
• Disbanded in Jan. 2010
Car Durei (Car sharing)
• 10 households – began with 2 cars
• Cost-sharing : paying annual due of KRw200,000
(Insurance and repair)
• Disbanded in Feb. 2010
44. Keywords of Town Culture
Spontaneity
(Voluntary
nickname deed)
Gender
(For equality
in relationship) equality
Co-existence with
Discussion difference Process-
culture oriented
(One step - decision-
Consideration and making
back from
conflict)
Cooperation Parties-
concerned
Diversity
Mentor (no buck-
and passing)
Support
