Gyeonggi-do plans to drive a tree-decoration campaign on a large scale to rear the forest intensively into superior trees and natural resources that is highly valued and city forests into scenic beauty, worthy for the public good.

The province has revealed that the forest-decoration public labor campaign that was promoted so far in order for offering new employments since ’98, after the IMF will be repealed as the tree-decoration business is actively run to raise the forest resources through the improvement of quality production and ecological and technological forest management.

Throughout the past 30 years, afforest of 224 thousand ha, taking 41% of province forest land has been successful, there are not that many useful trees and 92% of current trees are still in the youth stage, demanding the tree-decoration business such as trimming, thinning, to make a more competitive forest.

A representative from the province said that it is wrong to judge our forest as small. He also presented an explanation for afforesting.

The representative also said that if the trees had been planted in the naked mountains in a national dimension in the ‘60~70’s, then it is the time to build a dense and economical forest resource as in Germany and New Zealand. Investment must be focused in the foresting business to become a country rich in forest.