Mr. Lee Soo-hwa, Deputy-Chief of Korea Forest Service(KFS) held an event of planting trees in Jindo, Jeonnam Province along with foresters and local people, ahead of the sixty first Arbor day.


After Korean War, the Korean forestry administration focused on reforestation in degraded forests and forest resource development for the last 60 years. KFS has reorganized forestry administration for sustainable forest management and afforestation of commercial trees, and announced the planting plan of this year.


KFS has a plan to plant 47,000 trees in 19,000 hectares nationwide throughout the spring planting season from Mar. 1 to April. 30 and has a scenic afforestation project of planting 5,000,000 trees for urban forests. Furthermore, KFS induces voluntary participation of citizens to design urban forests and holds forest culture events and city afforestation campaigns in order to share various benefits with people at all levels of society.


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