Greenhouse-Style Running Tracks

Koreaโ€™s Brilliant Solution for Winter Runners

A Game-Changing Innovation for Cold Weather Fitness

OMG you guys, Korea just figured out how to beat winter! ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธโ„๏ธ As temperatures drop below freezing, a super creative solution is popping up across the country โ€” greenhouse-style outdoor running tracks! These tunnel-like structures use transparent plastic sheets (the same kind used in agricultural greenhouses) stretched over existing tracks to create a warm, wind-free running environment. How genius is that?!

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฒจ์šธ์ฒ  ์•ผ์™ธ ์šด๋™์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์ด ๋“ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๊ธฐ์˜จ์ด ์˜ํ•˜๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ถ”์šด ๋‚ ์”จ์—๋„ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋“ค์ด ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋›ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก, ๋น„๋‹ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์•ผ์™ธ ํŠธ๋ž™์ด ์ „๊ตญ ๊ฐ์ง€์— ์„ค์น˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋†์—…์šฉ ๋น„๋‹ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ ์‹œํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์กด ํŠธ๋ž™ ์œ„์— ํ„ฐ๋„ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์ฐจ๋‹จ๋œ ์šด๋™ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Greenhouse-Style Running Tracks

Where Can You Find These Amazing Tracks?

These awesome facilities are spreading fast! ๐Ÿ“ The greenhouse track at Paju Stadium in Gyeonggi Province opened just last month and is already pulling in 600-700 visitors every weekday! Similar setups have also appeared in Ansan, Siheung, and Seosan. The best part? Theyโ€™re completely FREE for everyone โ€” both professional athletes and everyday runners like you and me!

์ด ๋†€๋ผ์šด ์‹œ์„ค๋“ค์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋„ ํŒŒ์ฃผ ์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€์˜ ๋น„๋‹ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค ํŠธ๋ž™์€ ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ๊ฐœ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ‰์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€ 600~700๋ช…์˜ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ์ด ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์‚ฐ, ์‹œํฅ, ์„œ์‚ฐ์—๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ์ ์€ ์ „๋ฌธ ์„ ์ˆ˜๋“  ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ๋ฏผ์ด๋“  ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

How Warm Does It Actually Get Inside?

Hereโ€™s the science that makes it work! ๐ŸŒก๏ธ By blocking the cold winter wind, these plastic structures create an environment that feels 5 to 10 degrees Celsius warmer than outside. Thatโ€™s a HUGE difference when youโ€™re trying to maintain your running routine during Koreaโ€™s brutal winters!

๋น„๋‹ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค ํŠธ๋ž™์ด ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์„ ๋ง‰์•„์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ฒด๊ฐ ์˜จ๋„๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๊นฅ๋ณด๋‹ค 5~10๋„ ์ •๋„ ๋†’๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํ˜น๋…ํ•œ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋„ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

Greenhouse-Style Running Tracks

Real Runnerโ€™s Experience

โ€œKim Gi-hyeon,โ€ a 37-year-old passionate runner from Goyang who runs outdoors 5-6 times a week, tried out the Paju track during a cold wave alert. ๐Ÿฅถโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ˜… He said he bundled up expecting freezing temps but ended up taking almost everything off except shorts and a long-sleeve shirt! He described it as feeling like late fall or early winter. โ€œRunning on a treadmill feels like Iโ€™m being forced to work out. Running outdoors is just more fun,โ€ he shared.

๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋„ ๊ณ ์–‘์‹œ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” 37์„ธ์˜ ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ โ€œ๊น€๊ธฐํ˜„โ€ ์”จ๋Š” ์ฃผ 5~6ํšŒ ์•ผ์™ธ์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œํŒŒ ํŠน๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํšจ๋œ ๋‚  ํŒŒ์ฃผ ํŠธ๋ž™์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ถ”์šธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ ๋‘๊ป๊ฒŒ ์ž…๊ณ  ๊ฐ”์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ”์ง€์™€ ๊ธดํŒ” ํ‹ฐ์…”์ธ ๋งŒ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๋‹ค ๋ฒ—์œผ์…จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๋Šฆ๊ฐ€์„์ด๋‚˜ ์ดˆ๊ฒจ์šธ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œํŠธ๋ ˆ๋“œ๋ฐ€์—์„œ ๋›ฐ๋ฉด ์–ต์ง€๋กœ ์šด๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์š”. ์•ผ์™ธ์—์„œ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์žฌ๋ฐŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Safety Concerns Are Real Though

Not everything is perfect though! โš ๏ธ Earlier this month, about 120 meters of the plastic covering at Ansan Wa Stadium tore and collapsed due to strong winds. The facility needed 10 days of repairs before reopening. Some experts worry that these makeshift structures โ€” basically plastic sheeting over steel frames โ€” might not withstand Koreaโ€™s intense winter winds or heavy snowfall.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์ด๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ ์•ˆ์‚ฐ ์™€ ์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ•ํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ฝ 120๋ฏธํ„ฐ์˜ ๋น„๋‹ ๋ฎ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ์ฐข์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ์„ค์€ 10์ผ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ๊ณต์‚ฌ ํ›„์—์•ผ ์žฌ๊ฐœ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ฒ ์ œ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ ์œ„์— ๋น„๋‹์„ ์”Œ์šด ์ž„์‹œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด๋‚˜ ํญ์„ค์„ ๊ฒฌ๋”œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Greenhouse-Style Running Tracks

Officials Promise to Address Issues

City officials arenโ€™t ignoring these concerns! ๐Ÿ”ง Theyโ€™ve acknowledged that track elasticity is crucial for both performance and injury prevention. Theyโ€™ve promised regular inspections and plans to strengthen support structures as demand continues to grow. Itโ€™s clear theyโ€™re committed to making this innovation work safely!

์ง€์ž์ฒด ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ํŠธ๋ž™์˜ ํƒ„์„ฑ์ด ์„ ์ˆ˜๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋ถ€์ƒ ๋ฐฉ์ง€์— ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ ๊ฒ€๊ณผ ์ง€์ง€ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฌผ ๋ณด๊ฐ• ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

The Future of Winter Running in Korea

This innovation shows how creative thinking can solve real problems! ๐Ÿ’ก While safety improvements are still needed, greenhouse-style tracks represent an exciting step forward for making healthy activities accessible year-round. Keep running, Korea!

์ด ํ˜์‹ ์€ ์ฐฝ์˜์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์•„์ง ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋น„๋‹ํ•˜์šฐ์Šคํ˜• ํŠธ๋ž™์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํ™œ๋™์„ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐœ์ „์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋Ÿฌ๋„ˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ๊ณ„์† ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

Greenhouse-Style Running Tracks