GS Caltex announced on May 11 that GS Caltex Learning Garden at Seoul Forest will participate as a corporate garden at the 2026 Seoul International Garden Expo, reopening as an ecological learning space accessible to everyone.
The expo will show eco-friendly activities that GS Caltex has conducted alongside Seoul Forest for over 20 years.
The renovation of GS Caltex Learning Garden goes beyond simple space maintenance; it is a project that returns the value of GS Caltex’s accumulated eco-friendly social contribution activities to citizens.
When Seoul Forest opened in 2005, a portion of the forest was created with the sponsorship of GS Caltex.
Since then, for over 20 years, GS Caltex has maintained consistent interest and support to preserve the value of urban forests where citizens and nature coexist.
GS Caltex employees and their families pose for a photo after voluntary gardening activities at Seoul Forest.
In particular, GS Caltex has been working to spread “green culture” in the city center by operating Seoul Forest Garden School, a citizen-participatory gardener training program, for the past two years.
Through the Garden School, citizens were able to broaden their understanding of plants and ecology and accumulate experience in gardening themselves.
The newly renovated GS Caltex Learning Garden is a garden of collaboration completed by the company and citizens.
GS Caltex Learning Garden is a space created by employees, citizens, and environmental experts together from the initial construction phase to the operation phase.
It was designed as an open learning space where people can learn the ecological value of plants and forests and naturally share the meaning of carbon neutrality in their daily lives.
The garden has plants that have excellent carbon absorption effects.
The ecological function of the garden was enhanced by planting miscanthus and sedges which increase organic carbon in the soil and help with sustainable biomass production.
The entire garden was designed to function as a living carbon cycle model.
A large American sycamore tree at the entrance of the garden is a symbol that has long stood guard over this space.
Downed trees from typhoons or those that reached the end of their lifespan were recycled into wood chip walkways and hill-shaped benches.
By converting them into carbon-storing materials instead of discarding them, the significance of resources recycling can be seen throughout the garden.
An image of GS Caltex’s Energy Gallery.
Opening Energy Gallery as Online Exhibition Space with Families’ Participation
GS Caltex unveiled Energy Gallery on June 1, an online exhibition featuring works from the GS Caltex Art Festa, a cultural program for GS Caltex employees and their families.
Energy Gallery is a special exhibition organized by GS Caltex for Family Month, which falls in May, featuring artworks created by the children of GS Caltex employees who thought about the meaning of energy together with their parents.
GS Caltex utilized AI technology to breathe life into each piece of art.
The exhibited works were created under the theme of “Stories about Energy That Powers Our Daily Lives.”
Participating children chose one of three themes — peaceful daily life created by energy, energy guardians illuminating the world and a new energy world of the future — and freely expressed their ideas through drawings.
Each piece incorporates the children’s imagination and the conversations shared with their families who worked alongside them.
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