| Site character | - A historical market formed in 1797 with Suwon Hwaseong |
| - Suwon’s representative market until the early 1990s, where there was a bus terminal to Seoul |
| - Decline since the 1990s, leaving only restaurants and lodgings |
| - As Suwon Hwaseong is listed as a World Cultural Heritage, it is designated as a cultural property protection zone, and the region’s vitality is gradually lost due to the development activity regulation |
| Progress process | - Started in January 2009 by meeting with experts and merchants association |
| - Merchants association and experts signed an MOU in October, 2009: regular meeting take place twice a month |
| - 66 merchant and expert meetings were held for three and a half years from January 2009 to May 2012(information session, education, seminars, excursions of domestic and overseas advanced sites, street cleaning campaigns, etc.) |
| - Signed a landscape agreement in June 2012 |