Students participated directly in the town’s various events and community capacity strengthening programs to make blog newspapers containing the vivid atmosphere of the city, while also interviewing townspeople to produce a town storybook. It was assessed that the young students added a young touch to what they learned by communicating directly with the community to not only promote the town, but also contributed to energizing the area through urban regeneration projects. Furthermore, in order to address one of the biggest urban problems of illegal garbage disposal, the students painted on the walls and electric poles or planted ‘conscience’ flower pots and gardens below electric poles or next to clothes donation boxes, which are common places that garbage is thrown away illegally, to promote proper garbage disposal of residents and help establish a pleasant urban environment.

 YU Department of Sociology senior Yoon Dong-seop (24), who participated in this project, said, “This project was a good opportunity to run around the city to identify problems of the community and to look into the community culture.” He added, “We installed ‘conscience’ flower pots with the goal of making clean alleys and because we participated directly from the planning to implementation stages, we became very attached to the outcomes. It was fulfilling as community members responded positively to our efforts.” 
 
 Meanwhile, a seminar on the results of this industry-academic cooperation project of YU is scheduled to be held at the Suseong-gu Happiness For All Urban Regeneration Support Center.