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한국국제학교제주와 세인트존스베리아카데미제주 학생 연합 동아리 픽사이클이 8월 29일 오후 1시부터 4시까지 영어교육도시 주민센터 GEC 커뮤니티스페이스 앞 원형 공터에서 '혼디달리 가치살리 제주, 우리동네 자전거수리데이'를 개최한다.

이번 행사는 픽사이클과 제주수눌음지역자활센터, 제주인 사회적협동조합이 공동 주최하며, 2025년부터 시작된 무료 자전거 수리 행사의 네 번째 프로그램으로 카카오제주임팩트 챌린지 지원을 받아 운영된다. 행사명에는 함께 달리고 제주 환경을 함께 살리자는 뜻을 담았다.

수리비는 현금 대신 소형가전과 의류, 책 등 사용하지 않는 물품 기부로 받으며, 기부 물품은 수눌음 알뜰가게 '요디'에서 판매돼 수익금이 제주지역 소외계층 자활사업에 쓰인다.

픽사이클은 그동안 기부받은 자전거를 수리해 판매한 수익금을 도내 아동보호복지시설에 전달하고 캄보디아 초등학생들에게 자전거 22대를 지원했다. 또 도민소통 플랫폼 '모두의 제주'를 통해 제안한 영어교육도시 자전거 정비쉼터가 3호 근린공원에 조성 추진되고 있다.

Fixycle, the joint student club of Korea International School Jeju and St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju, will hold a neighbourhood bike repair day on August 29, 2026, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It takes place on the open circular lot in front of the GEC Community Space at the Jeju Global Education City community centre, next to Saem Kindergarten.

The event is called "Hondi Dalli, Gachi Salli Jeju, Our Neighbourhood Bike Repair Day". The name carries the idea of riding together and saving Jeju's environment together. Fixycle is co-hosting with the Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center and Jeju-in Social Cooperative. It is the fourth in the series of free repair events that began in 2025, and it runs with support from the Kakao Jeju Impact Challenge.

The organisers said they planned the day to increase bicycle use by repairing broken bicycles, and to spread a sustainable culture of movement within the community.

Payment is not taken in cash. Residents settle the repair cost by donating household goods they no longer use, such as small appliances, clothing and books. Those donations are sold at Yodi, the Sunureum thrift shop, and the proceeds go to self-sufficiency programmes for underserved residents in Jeju.

Fixycle has repaired donated bicycles and sold them at flea markets and school bazaars, passing the proceeds to a child welfare facility on the island, and has supplied 22 bicycles to primary school students in Cambodia. The club also proposed a bicycle repair station for Jeju Global Education City through the provincial participation platform "Modu-ui Jeju", and that station is now being built in Neighbourhood Park No. 3.

Fixycle students said they hope the day secures the right to repair for cyclists in the education city and helps donated bicycles find new owners.

[부연설명] 이 사업은 픽사이클의 정책 제안에서 시작되었습니다. 2026년 6월 픽사이클은 제주도 정책참여 플랫폼 '모두의 제주'에 자전거 정비 인프라 조성을 제안했고, 이후 제주도지사 인수위원회를 직접 방문해 제안 내용을 설명했습니다. 기사 본문에는 픽사이클이 언급되지 않았으나, 해당 시설은 이 제안이 반영된 결과입니다.

서귀포시가 2026년 하반기 대정읍 영어교육도시 3호근린공원에 사업비 8000만원을 들여 자전거 정비쉼터를 조성한다. 시는 자전거 이용 활성화와 친환경 교통문화 확산, 공원 이용객의 편의 증진을 위해 8월 중 사업에 착수해 10월까지 마무리할 계획이다. 대상지는 영어교육도시 내 자전거 이용 동선과 접근성을 고려해 3호근린공원으로 선정됐다. 정비쉼터는 30㎡ 규모로 조성되며 자전거 셀프 정비대와 공기주입기, 전기자전거 충전시설이 설치된다. 여기에 벤치와 음용수대 등 휴게시설을 함께 마련해 자전거 이용자뿐 아니라 공원을 찾는 주민들의 편의도 높인다는 계획이다. 이번 사업은 도민소통 플랫폼 '모두의 제주'를 통해 접수된 제안을 서귀포시가 현장 여건과 타당성 측면에서 검토한 결과 적정한 것으로 판단해 추진하게 됐다. 서귀포시 관계자는 정비쉼터 조성을 통해 시민들이 보다 안전하고 편리하게 자전거를 이용할 수 있는 환경을 마련하겠다며, 앞으로도 생활밀착형 공원 편의시설을 지속적으로 확충해 나가겠다고 밝혔다.

[Note] This project began with a policy proposal from Fixycle. In June 2026, Fixycle submitted a proposal for bicycle repair infrastructure to "Modu-ui Jeju," Jeju Province's public policy participation platform, and later visited the Jeju Governor's Transition Committee in person to present it. The article itself does not mention Fixycle, but the facility is a result of that proposal.

On August 5, 2026, Seogwipo City announced that it will build a bicycle repair rest area in Neighbourhood Park No. 3 in Jeju Global Education City, Daejeong-eup, in the second half of this year. The city has set aside 80 million won for the work, which begins this month and is scheduled for completion by October.

Park No. 3 was selected after the city weighed cycling routes and ease of access across the education city. The site sits on paths residents already ride, which is what made it the practical choice among the candidate locations.

The rest area will cover 30 square metres. It will hold a self-service repair stand, an air pump and a charging point for electric bicycles, which are the three things a rider is most often stranded without. Benches and a drinking fountain will go in alongside them, so that the space serves ordinary park users as well as cyclists rather than functioning as equipment alone.

The project reached the city as a citizen proposal submitted through "Modu-ui Jeju", the provincial public participation platform. Seogwipo City examined the conditions at the site and assessed the proposal's feasibility, judged it sound, and moved it into the construction schedule.

A city official said the repair rest area is intended to give residents a safer and more convenient environment in which to use a bicycle. The official added that Seogwipo City will continue to expand park amenities of this kind, meaning facilities tied closely to daily life rather than to occasional use.

The city has framed the project around three aims. It wants to encourage everyday cycling, spread an environmentally sound transport culture, and improve conditions for the people who use the park.

한국국제학교 제주·세인트존스베리아카데미 제주 연합 동아리 픽사이클(Fixycle) 학생들이 제주특별자치도개발공사의 후원으로 진행된 ‘자전거 삼다 프로젝트’에 참여했다.

지난 7월 16일 사계해안도로와 송악산 둘레길에서 진행된 이번 프로젝트는 ‘배우다, 달리다, 알리다’를 주제로 자전거 교육과 안전 주행, 자전거 이용문화 활성화 활동을 진행했다.

픽사이클 학생들은 실제 도로를 주행하며 자전거의 친환경적 가치를 체험하는 한편, 도로의 불법 주차와 부족한 자전거도로 표식 등 주행 중 발견한 안전 문제를 직접 확인했다. 이를 통해 안전한 자전거 환경을 만들기 위해서는 개인의 노력뿐만 아니라 지역사회의 관심과 참여가 필요하다는 점을 되새겼다.

픽사이클은 앞으로도 자전거 수리와 안전한 주행 환경 조성, 친환경 이동문화 확산을 위한 다양한 활동을 이어갈 계획이다.

On July 16, 2026, students from Fixycle took part in the Samda Bicycle Project along Jeju's Sagye Coastal Road and the Songaksan trail. Fixycle is the joint club of Korea International School Jeju (KIS Jeju) and St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju (SJA Jeju). The programme was sponsored by the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Development Corporation and led on the day by the social enterprise BY100.

The Samda Bicycle Project is built around three strands, called Learn, Ride and Share. Learn is an instructional programme for children and teenagers who cannot yet ride a bicycle. Ride is hands-on training focused on safety education and real road riding, so that participants can cycle safely in live traffic. Share covers the work of promoting everyday cycling and fixing the hazards riders encounter along the route.

Because Fixycle's own activity centres on repairing bicycles and building a safer riding environment, the day gave its members an unusually close look at their own community. Beyond the sport of it, students came away with a renewed sense of the bicycle as a low-carbon means of transport, and of their own part in shaping the culture around it.

Riders described the climbs as demanding. One said the uphill was steep and hard, but that reaching the top felt worth it, and asked that projects like Samda be held more often. Another student reported nearly colliding with a car parked illegally on a stretch that carried no bicycle-lane markings, and said that building a safe cycling culture will take the attention of the whole community, not Fixycle alone.

Fixycle says it will keep up this work so that Jeju becomes a safer place to ride and a sustainable cycling culture takes hold.

사단법인 프렌드림이 픽사이클의 통학용 자전거 6대 후원 소식을 나눔이야기 게시판에 올렸다. 2025년 3월과 9월, 2026년 4월에 이은 네 번째 후원으로 누적 18대가 됐다.

자전거는 캄보디아 쿨렌트메이 초등학교에 다니는 8세에서 11세 아동 여섯 명에게 전달됐다. 프렌드림은 캄보디아 아이들이 집에서 학교까지 거리가 멀어 매일 걸어서 등교하거나, 학교가 멀면 중학교와 고등학교 진학을 포기하는 경우가 많다고 설명했다.

게시물에는 픽사이클이 밝힌 후원 계기도 함께 실렸다. 버려진 자전거를 수리하고 재활용해 자원 낭비를 줄이고 환경 보호에 기여하며, 자전거가 친환경 이동 수단으로 갖는 가치를 학교와 지역사회에 알리는 데 중점을 두고 있다는 내용이다. 재활용한 자전거 판매 수익의 일부를 의미 있는 곳에 쓰려고 알아보던 중 프렌드림을 만났고, 먼 곳 친구들과 자전거를 통해 함께 꿈꾸고 성장했으면 좋겠다고 밝혔다.

Friendream, a Korean nonprofit that supports children in Cambodia, posted news of a donation from Fixycle on its Sharing Stories board on 6 July 2026. The club provided six bicycles for children who need them to get to school. It was the fourth such donation, following March and September 2025 and April 2026, and the post records eighteen bicycles given in total.

The bicycles went to six children between the ages of eight and eleven who attend Kulen Tmey Primary School. One is in the second grade, one in the third, and the remaining four are in the fifth. Friendream explained that many Cambodian children walk to school because their homes are far from it, and that some give up on middle school and high school altogether when the distance becomes too great. For children in that position, the organisation said, a bicycle for the journey to school is a substantial gift.

The post also carried Fixycle's own account of why it chose to give. The club repairs and reuses discarded bicycles to cut waste and help protect the environment, and it works to show schools and the wider community what a bicycle is worth as a low-carbon way to travel. Looking for somewhere meaningful to direct part of the income from the bicycles it had restored and sold, the club came across Friendream. Fixycle said it hoped to dream and grow alongside friends far away through bicycles.

Friendream closed the post by thanking the club and the individual supporters who have kept the programme going.

제주시새활용센터가 2026년 6월 17일 오후 3시 파타고니아 제주직영점에서 새활용토크 '다시, 쓰는, 우리'를 개최한다. 이번 행사는 제주시새활용센터와 파타고니아 제주직영점이 함께 마련한 자리로, 고쳐 쓰고 다시 쓰는 문화를 통해 지속가능한 제주를 만들어가기 위해 기획됐다. 행사 주제는 버려지는 물건을 폐기하는 대신 수리와 수선을 통해 다시 사용하는 문화를 확산하자는 의미를 담고 있다. 김광현 파타고니아코리아 환경팀 팀장이 '수선하는 기업, 파타고니아 이야기'를 발표하고, 이어지는 제주지역 사례 발표에서 장윤우 픽사이클 제주 대표가 10대들의 자전거 수리 및 기부 활동을 소개한다. 이 밖에 의류 수선과 리폼 기반의 새활용 창업 사례, 지역형 리페어카페 운영 경험이 공유되며 이후 질의응답과 자유토크가 진행된다. 픽사이클로서는 글로벌 브랜드와 지역 사업자들과 같은 자리에서 발표하는 기회로, 학생 동아리의 활동이 지역 새활용 논의의 한 축으로 다뤄졌다는 점에서 의미가 있다.

The Jeju City Upcycling Center held a Reuse Talk titled "Repair, Reuse, Us" at Patagonia's Jeju store on Tapdong-ro, Jeju City, from 3 p.m. on June 17, 2026. The centre and the Patagonia store organised the event together, framing it around the idea that a culture of mending and reusing is what makes a sustainable Jeju possible.

The title carries the programme's argument, that a discarded object should not simply be thrown away but repaired and put back into use. The talk set global brand practice beside local practice in Jeju so that the two could be examined together.

Kim Kwang-hyun, head of the environment team at Patagonia Korea, opened with a session called "Patagonia, a Company That Mends", covering the brand's environmental campaigns and how it has spread a repair culture through its own business.

Local speakers followed. Yunu Aiden Chang, representative of Fixycle Jeju, presented the club's work of teenagers repairing bicycles and donating them onward. Kim Tae-yeon of Reform Convenience Store, a 2026 upcycling startup team, spoke on building a business from clothing repair and reform. Bang Ui-chan of Surisuri Dasuri Village shared what it takes to run a neighbourhood repair café.

A question-and-answer session and open discussion closed the programme, giving participants and speakers a chance to talk through what repair means in practice.

Registration was handled through a QR code on the event poster and an online form, on a first-come basis. For Fixycle, the invitation mattered. A student club was placed on the same platform as a global outdoor brand and established local businesses, and asked to speak about repair as an equal contributor.

제주시새활용센터가 지속가능한 제주를 위한 새활용 문화 확산을 주제로 ‘다시, 쓰는, 우리’ 새활용 토크를 개최한다.

이번 행사에서는 파타고니아의 수선 문화와 환경 캠페인을 비롯해 제주 지역의 다양한 수리·새활용 사례가 소개된다. 특히 픽사이클 제주 대표 장윤우가 참여해 10대 학생들이 방치되거나 사용하지 않는 자전거를 직접 수리하고 기부하는 활동을 소개할 예정이다.

이 밖에도 의류 수선과 리폼, 지역형 리페어카페 운영 사례 등이 함께 다뤄지며, 참가자들은 ‘수리할 권리(Right to Repair)’를 중심으로 물건을 고쳐 쓰는 문화가 환경과 지역사회에 미치는 영향에 대해 이야기를 나눈다.

이번 행사는 자전거를 비롯한 다양한 물건의 수리·재사용·새활용을 통해 지속가능한 소비문화를 확산하고, 지역사회 구성원들의 참여를 확대한다는 점에서 의미가 있다.

The Jeju City Upcycling Center held its first Reuse Talk of 2026, "Repair, Reuse, Us", at Patagonia's Jeju store at 3 p.m. on June 17. The programme brought together local examples of repair and reuse and opened them to discussion, in service of spreading a mend-and-reuse culture across Jeju.

The theme carried a clear argument, that objects headed for disposal should be repaired and returned to use, and the session placed a global brand's environmental campaigns alongside the work of young people and local creators in Jeju. The Right to Repair sat at the centre of the discussion.

Kim Kwang-hyun, head of the environment team at Patagonia Korea, spoke on "Patagonia, a Company That Mends". Yunu Aiden Chang, representative of Fixycle Jeju, followed with an account of teenagers repairing and donating bicycles. Kim Tae-yeon of Reform Convenience Store presented a startup built on clothing repair and reform, and Bang Ui-chan of Surisuri Dasuri Village described running a neighbourhood repair café.

Jang Hye-young, team leader at Pick Jeju, moderated the question-and-answer session and open discussion that followed, in which participants examined how the ordinary act of mending a bicycle, a garment or a household object changes a community and its environment.

A centre official said the talk was meant to bring repair and reuse within reach of residents, and that the centre will keep working with local partners on participatory programmes of this kind.

The event was hosted by Jeju City and the Jeju City Upcycling Center, with the Jeju Social Economy Network and Patagonia as partners. Places were offered on a first-come basis through a QR code on the event poster.

제주수눌음지역자활센터와 자활기업 제주인사회적협동조합, 사회적기업 BY100, 한국국제학교 학생 동아리 픽사이클이 2026년 3월 28일 영어교육도시 공원에서 '제3회 무료 자전거 출장 수리 행사'를 개최했다. 이번 행사는 자전거 이용 활성화와 방치 자전거 문제 해소, 지역 주민의 생활 편의 증진을 위해 마련됐다. 현장을 찾은 주민들에게 무상 점검과 수리 서비스를 제공하는 한편, 수리를 희망하는 주민들이 가정에서 사용하지 않는 재활용품을 기증하는 활동도 함께 진행해 자원순환과 나눔의 가치를 더했다. 지난해 4월과 9월 두 차례 진행된 행사가 호응을 얻으며 지역 내 대표 생활밀착형 행사로 자리 잡았고, 세 번째 행사는 한층 확대된 모습으로 치러졌다. 특히 센터는 행사의 지속적인 추진을 위해 네이밍 공모를 진행해 '혼디달리, 가치살리 제주'를 공식 명칭으로 선정했다. 자전거 수리는 전문 정비사의 기술 지원과 픽사이클 학생들의 자원봉사로 이뤄졌으며, 부품 교체부터 기본 점검, 간단한 고장 수리까지 폭넓은 서비스를 제공했다.

On March 28, 2026, the third Free Mobile Bicycle Repair Day was held at a park in Jeju Global Education City. Four organisations ran it together. They were the Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center, led by Cho Seung-hee, the self-sufficiency enterprise Jeju-in Social Cooperative, led by Ko Eun-taek, the social enterprise BY100, led by Kim Hyung-chan, and Fixycle, the Korea International School student club chaired by Yunu Aiden Chang.

The event set out to encourage everyday cycling, address the problem of abandoned bicycles, and make daily life easier for residents. Free inspections and repairs were offered to anyone who came, and residents who wanted a repair were also invited to donate unused household goods, adding resource circulation and sharing to the day's purpose.

Two earlier editions, held in April and September of the previous year, had drawn a strong response and established the event as a fixture of local life. This third edition ran on firmer footing, with a more settled operating structure and a wider programme.

To carry the event forward as a signature local programme, the centre ran a public naming contest and selected "Hondi Dalli, Gachi Salli Jeju", a phrase in Jeju dialect meaning to ride together and to keep what is worth keeping.

Repairs were carried out by professional mechanics with Fixycle students volunteering alongside them, covering everything from replacing worn parts to basic inspections and simple fixes.

Chang, the Fixycle chair, said the work is rewarding precisely because small actions add up to real change in a community, and that he hopes to keep going with more residents in the years ahead.

제주수눌음지역자활센터가 자활기업 제주인사회적협동조합, 사회적기업 BY100, 한국국제학교 학생 동아리 픽사이클과 함께 2026년 3월 28일 영어교육도시 공원에서 '제3회 무료 자전거 출장 수리 행사'를 성황리에 개최했다. 행사는 자전거 이용 활성화와 방치 자전거 문제 해소, 지역 주민의 생활 편의 증진을 목적으로 마련됐으며, 주민들을 대상으로 무상 점검과 수리 서비스가 제공됐다. 수리를 희망하는 주민들이 쓰지 않는 재활용품을 기증하는 활동도 병행돼 자원순환과 나눔의 의미를 함께 담았다. 2024년 하반기부터 이어진 협력이 세 번째 행사에 이르면서 운영 체계가 자리를 잡았고, 센터는 네이밍 공모를 거쳐 '혼디달리, 가치살리 제주'를 공식 명칭으로 선정했다. 자전거 수리는 전문 정비사의 기술 지원과 픽사이클 학생들의 자원봉사로 이뤄졌다. 픽사이클 장윤우 회장은 작은 실천이 모여 지역사회에 긍정적인 변화를 만들 수 있다는 점에서 보람을 느낀다며, 앞으로도 의미 있는 활동을 이어가고 싶다고 밝혔다.

The Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center, led by Cho Seung-hee, held the third Free Mobile Bicycle Repair Day on March 28, 2026, at a park in Jeju Global Education City. It was organised with the self-sufficiency enterprise Jeju-in Social Cooperative, led by Ko Eun-taek, the social enterprise BY100, led by Kim Hyung-chan, and Fixycle, the Korea International School student club chaired by Yunu Aiden Chang.

Free inspections and repairs were offered to residents who came to the park, in an effort to encourage everyday cycling, reduce the number of abandoned bicycles, and ease daily life in the neighbourhood. Alongside the repairs, residents seeking a fix were invited to donate unused household items, giving the day a second purpose in resource circulation and sharing.

Two earlier editions in April and September of the previous year had drawn high turnout and a positive response, establishing the event as a fixture of local life. Building on that, the third edition ran with a more stable operating structure and a wider programme.

The centre also ran a public naming contest to settle the event as a signature local programme, selecting "Hondi Dalli, Gachi Salli Jeju", a Jeju dialect phrase about riding together and keeping what has value.

Professional mechanics provided the technical work and Fixycle students volunteered alongside them, covering worn-part replacement, basic inspections and simple repairs.

Chang said small actions accumulate into real change for a community, and that he intends to keep participating. One resident said the day meant more for combining a repair with the chance to pass on unused household goods, and hoped it would continue as a neighbourhood tradition.

한국국제학교 제주·세인트존스베리아카데미 제주 연합 동아리 픽사이클(Fixycle)이 제주인사회적협동조합, 푸른바이크쉐어링, 제주수눌음지역자활센터와 함께 제주 지역의 자원순환과 친환경 이동 문화 확산을 위한 업무협약을 체결했다.

4개 기관은 자전거 수리·정비 및 재사용 사업을 비롯해 환경보전과 탄소중립을 위한 교육·캠페인·체험 프로그램을 공동으로 운영하고, 지역사회의 자전거 이용 활성화를 위한 다양한 문화 활동을 추진할 예정이다. 공동사업명 공모전, 자전거 수리 및 재활용품 기증 행사, 자전거 교육, 업사이클링 작품 전시 등 구체적인 협력 활동도 이어간다.

특히 경험이 풍부한 사회적기업 관계자들과 고등학생들의 창의력과 열정을 연결해 세대와 분야를 넘어선 협력 모델을 만들어간다는 점에서 의미가 있다.

협약 이후 첫 활동으로 픽사이클은 2월 28일 영어교육도시 자전거도로에서 돌줍기 캠페인을 진행해 자전거 이용자의 안전을 위협하는 돌과 위험요소를 직접 제거할 예정이다. 이를 시작으로 자전거를 통한 자원순환과 탄소중립 실천을 지역사회로 확산해 나갈 계획이다.

On the morning of February 20, 2026, Fixycle signed a partnership agreement with three of Jeju's leading social enterprises in resource circulation and eco-friendly mobility. Fixycle is the joint club of Korea International School Jeju and St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju, and its partners were Jeju-in Social Cooperative, Blue Bike Sharing and the Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center. The signing took place at Ttottheon Bookshop in Ido-dong, Jeju City.

Some twenty people gathered to talk about bicycles that morning, and fifty-two years separated the oldest from the youngest in the room. The experience of social enterprise leaders and organisers met the creativity and drive of high school students, joined, as one participant put it, by chains and gears.

The agreement centres on three commitments. The four bodies will run joint projects in bicycle repair, maintenance and reuse, jointly develop education, campaign and hands-on programmes for environmental conservation and carbon neutrality, and carry out promotional and cultural activity to encourage cycling across the community. To deliver these, they agreed to run a naming contest for their joint programme, hold bicycle repair and recycled-goods donation events, deliver bicycle education, and stage an upcycling exhibition in turn.

The hope is that this work builds a virtuous circle in which economic value, sharing and carbon neutrality reinforce one another. In place of exhaust and engine noise, the bicycle leaves sweat and wind behind it, a means of transport that is both environmentally sound and democratic.

As its first activity under the agreement, Fixycle held a stone-clearing campaign on the bicycle paths of Jeju Global Education City on February 28, removing hazards so that every rider in the city can travel safely.

한국국제학교 제주와 세인트존스베리아카데미 제주 학생들이 함께하는 연합클럽 픽사이클(Fixcycle)이 제주수눌음지역자활센터, 제주인사회적협동조합, 푸른바이크쉐어링과 함께 제주 지역 환경보전과 자전거 이용 활성화를 위한 업무협약을 체결했다.

4개 기관은 2024년 하반기부터 자전거 수리·정비 교육과 재활용품 기증 행사를 공동으로 진행해 왔으며, 이번 협약을 통해 협력 활동을 보다 체계적으로 확대할 계획이다.

협약에 따라 방치 자전거 수리·정비 및 재사용 사업, 탄소중립 교육과 캠페인, 자전거 이용 활성화 프로그램 등을 공동으로 추진한다. 특히 지역 자활기관의 공공적 역할, 자전거 전문기관의 기술력, 국제학교 학생들의 참여를 결합해 자전거 재사용을 중심으로 한 지속가능한 자원순환 네트워크를 구축한다는 점에서 의미가 있다.

픽사이클은 앞으로도 지역 기관들과 협력해 자전거를 통한 자원순환과 탄소중립 실천을 확대하고, 제주 지역의 친환경 자전거 문화를 확산해 나갈 예정이다.

Local institutions, private enterprise and a school have joined hands to protect Jeju's environment and encourage cycling. The Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center, led by Cho Seung-hee, together with Jeju-in Social Cooperative, Blue Bike Sharing and Fixycle, signed a joint memorandum of understanding on February 20, 2026. Fixycle is the joint club of Korea International School Jeju and St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju.

The four organisations have worked together since the second half of 2024, running bicycle repair and maintenance education and recycled-goods donation events twice a year and sustaining a steady practice of resource circulation. The agreement builds on that record to put the collaboration on a more systematic and lasting footing.

Its stated purpose is to spread the value of resource circulation and contribute to carbon neutrality through bicycle repair, maintenance and reuse projects and through education programmes. Under the agreement the four bodies will pursue joint work on repairing bicycles and returning abandoned ones to use. They will jointly develop and run tailored education, campaign and hands-on programmes for environmental conservation and carbon neutrality, carry out promotion and cultural activity to widen community participation in cycling, and take on further projects as the agreement's aims require.

What distinguishes it is the move beyond a campaign toward a durable resource-circulation network built around bicycle reuse. It combines the public role of a self-sufficiency centre and a social cooperative, the technical capacity of a bicycle enterprise, and the voluntary participation of international school students, a public-private-academic model that has drawn attention.

One participating official said the bicycle is more than green transport, and that it is a vehicle for resource circulation and community participation.

한국국제학교에서 시작한 자전거 동아리 픽사이클(Fixycle)은 자전거를 매개로 환경 보호, 자원순환, 교육봉사와 지역사회 기여 활동을 이어가고 있다.

픽사이클은 어린이들에게 안전한 자전거 이용법을 가르치는 교육봉사를 준비하고 있으며, 자전거를 기증받아 직접 수리한 뒤 새로운 주인에게 전달하는 활동도 진행하고 있다. 2025년에는 12대의 자전거를 지역사회에 전달하고, 캄보디아에도 통학용 자전거 7대를 기부해 교육 기회 확대에 기여했다.

또한 제주수눌음지역자활센터 등 지역 기관과 협력해 무료 자전거 수리 행사를 개최하고, 주민들이 기증한 물품을 판매해 지역 자활을 지원하는 등 지역사회와의 협력도 확대하고 있다.

한국국제학교에서 시작한 픽사이클은 현재 세인트존스베리아카데미제주 학생들까지 합류해 24명의 회원이 활동하는 단체로 성장했다. 앞으로도 자전거 교육과 수리·기부 활동을 통해 영어교육도시의 친환경 이동 문화를 확산하고, 제주에서 ‘15분 도시’를 실현하는 데 기여하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다.

Fixycle began in March 2024 as a club founded by two Korea International School students, Lee Ji-han and Lim Ju-an, and has grown into an organisation using bicycles for environmental protection, resource circulation, skills volunteering and wider access to education.

One strand of its work is teaching. On Saturday, September 27, 2025, Fixycle students were due at Aehyang Stadium in Jeju City for the Jeju Bicycle Day event, where they would have taught children how to ride a two-wheeler safely. Rain that morning forced the session to be cancelled, a real disappointment, since the students had trained beforehand as cycling instructors under a professional coach from the social enterprise BY100. The club intends to continue assisting with cycling education, and to share more widely the moment when a wobbling child first pedals forward on their own.

Repair and donation form the other strand. Fixycle takes in bicycles no longer in use, such as a graduating senior's bike or one outgrown by a child, repairs them, and finds each a new owner. Between January and September 2025, twelve bicycles found new owners locally and seven commuter bicycles were donated to Cambodia, where the distance between home and school pushes many students to give up on secondary education.

Working with the Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center, the club co-hosted the second Free Mobile Bicycle Repair Day, inspecting and repairing sixty bicycles at no charge. A further 175 donated household items were sold through the Sunureum shop Yodi to support local self-sufficiency.

Now twenty-four members strong with St. Johnsbury Academy Jeju students aboard, Fixycle sees Jeju Global Education City, home to some 24,000 people, as fertile ground for the 15-minute city.

제주수눌음지역자활센터가 2025년 9월 20일 자활기업 제주인사회적협동조합, 사회적기업 BY100, 한국국제학교 학생 동아리 픽사이클과 함께 제주영어교육도시 공원에서 '제2회 무료 자전거 출장 수리 행사'를 개최했다. 이번 행사는 자전거 이용 활성화와 방치 자전거 문제 해소, 지역 주민의 생활 편의 증진을 목표로 진행됐으며, 총 60대의 자전거에 대한 무상 점검 및 수리 서비스를 제공했다. 같은 해 4월 26일 열린 1회차 행사가 주민들의 큰 호응을 얻으며 정기 행사에 대한 기대감이 높았고, 이에 힘입어 2회차는 한층 확대된 규모와 체계적인 운영으로 치러졌다. 자전거 수리는 전문 정비사의 기술 지원과 픽사이클 학생들의 자원봉사로 이뤄졌으며, 부품 교체부터 기본 점검, 간단한 고장 수리까지 폭넓은 서비스를 제공했다. 당시 픽사이클 임주안 회장은 도움을 준 정비사들과 후원 기업에 감사를 전하며 앞으로도 지역사회에 기여할 수 있는 활동을 이어가겠다고 밝혔다. 행사에 참여한 한 학부모는 지역과 학교가 함께하는 프로그램이 계속되기를 바란다는 응원을 전했다.

On September 20, 2025, the Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center, led by Cho Seung-hee, held the second Free Mobile Bicycle Repair Day at a park in Jeju Global Education City. It was organised with the self-sufficiency enterprise Jeju-in Social Cooperative, led by Ko Eun-taek, the social enterprise BY100, led by Kim Hyung-chan, and Fixycle, the Korea International School student club then chaired by Lim Ju-an.

The event aimed to encourage everyday cycling, address the problem of abandoned bicycles, and make daily life easier for residents. Sixty bicycles were inspected and repaired free of charge over the course of the day.

The first edition, held on April 26 of the same year, had drawn a strong response and positive feedback from residents, and expectations for a regular programme ran high. On the strength of that interest, the second edition was run at a larger scale and with more systematic organisation.

Repairs were carried out by professional mechanics with Fixycle students volunteering alongside them, covering worn-part replacement, basic inspections and simple fixes, a range of service that left participating residents notably satisfied.

Fixycle is a club driven by Korea International School students, and has drawn attention for its sustained participation in and contribution to local cycling culture.

An event organiser said resident satisfaction is high because a broken bicycle can be put back into use without the burden of repair costs, and pledged continued effort toward a healthy, environmentally sound cycling culture through regular events.

Lim, the Fixycle chair, thanked the mechanics and sponsoring companies. One parent said the sight of students helping with repairs left a strong impression, and hoped such school-community programmes would continue.

한국국제학교 제주 학생들이 만든 자전거 동아리 픽사이클(Fixycle)​이 방치 자전거를 수리하고 지역사회에 기부하는 활동을 이어가고 있다.

픽사이클은 기후변화주간을 맞아 ‘BIKE FOR CHANGE’ 캠페인을 진행해 학생들의 자전거 등교와 헬멧 착용을 독려했다. 4일간 총 514명의 학생이 자전거로 등교했으며, 캠페인을 통해 약 205.6kg의 탄소배출량을 줄이는 성과를 거뒀다.

이후 지역 주민을 대상으로 ‘FREE BIKE REPAIR DAY’를 열어 사회적기업 및 전문 정비사들과 함께 자전거 70여 대를 무상으로 수리했다. 또한 주민들로부터 기부받은 자전거를 직접 수리해 플리마켓과 학교 바자회에서 판매하고, 수익금을 지역사회에 환원하고 있다.

지난 2024년에는 자전거 판매 수익금으로 아동보호복지시설 예향원과 캄보디아 초등학생 3명에게 자전거를 기부하기도 했다. 픽사이클은 앞으로 지역 아동 대상 무료 자전거 강습과 외국인 대상 자전거 투어 통역 등 다양한 지역사회 활동을 이어갈 계획이다.

Every year the week containing Earth Day on April 22 is designated Climate Change Week, set aside to recognise the seriousness of climate change and encourage low-carbon living. Last week, Jeju Global Education City saw a small but meaningful event that gave residents a way to take part.

Students who cycled to school wearing a helmet received a bicycle keyring, in a campaign called BIKE FOR CHANGE. It was planned and run by Fixycle, a club driven by high school students at Korea International School Jeju and chaired by Lim Ju-an, active since March 2024. The club takes in abandoned bicycles from around the city, repairs them, and sells them cheaply to give back to the community.

Excluding the rainy Tuesday that fell on Earth Day, 514 students cycled to school over four days. Word spread from Wednesday onward, and students began seeking out club members to verify their helmet and their ride, with ice cream and drink vouchers drawn by lot. It made for a small festival, and a sturdy sprout toward the climate crisis.

Morning and afternoon traffic in Jeju Global Education City backs up like a city centre. Over the campaign, daily cycle commuters rose from 95 on the first day to 149 on the last, and helmet wearers from 33 to 73. Assuming 0.2 kg of carbon per car per kilometre, the students cut 205.6 kg of emissions, which is what ten trees absorb in a year.

On Saturday, April 26, Fixycle joined Jeju-in, the Jeju Sunureum Regional Self-Sufficiency Center and BY100 for FREE BIKE REPAIR DAY, repairing some seventy bicycles over four hours.