Various policies are put in effect to create a welfare environment that ensures a good life for all citizens of the City as well as a pleasant living environment and an environmentally friendly clean city.
Through environmental education for children, the Blue Cheongju 21 C Campaign, and the reduction of garbage, Cheongju City has been expanding its citizens' movement for the preservation of the environment together with the promotion of businesses, including the formation of a metropolitan sanitary landfill with environmentally friendly facilities, the establishment of a Cheongju incinerator, and the installment of a sewage purification facility. Musimcheon, which used to smell bad with water pollution, was reborn as a clean river with many varieties of fish and birds, including Adeidae, through the City's consistent management of its water quality
