The Government Complex Gwacheon was built to address the shortage of government buildings and population concentration in the metropolitan area and to improve administrative efficiency and public administrative services. With the rapid development of the national economy in the 1970s resulting in the growth of administrative scale and function, the General Government Building -- currently the Government Complex Seoul -- alone was not able to meet the demand for office space. The space became so scarce that the government leased a total of 62,150㎡ offices and planned to build the second Government Building (currently the Government Complex Gwacheon). In accordance with the policy of dispersing the population and the metropolitan area, the government building site was confirmed in January 1978 as the area of Munwon-ri, Gwacheon, and the first-phase construction was commenced in April 1979 and was completed in December 1982. The construction of the second government building was divided into three stages, with the second phase begun in 1983 and completed in December 1985. Sequentially, the third phase was started in December 1990 and completed in December 1993.
A distributed low-rise arrangement is selected taking into account the surrounding environment and rear high mountains, with a Sunken* Garden -- a buffer zone -- placed at the center of the site.
Sunken: A dugout that induces natural light underground
Traffic flow and pedestrian flow are completely separated, and parking lots are built adjacent to buildings to separate vehicles and pedestrians.
Various welfare facilities include green trails with pine trees and other landscape trees (83 types and 109,670 trees in all), large tennis courts, soccer fields, and indoor gyms.
Facilities such as underground meeting room, underground pass and heliport are built in case of emergency.