JEONJU, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Jeonju city government in North Jeolla Province plans to install 2,500 water bags for street trees and other trees in parks and green spaces. This move is a part of efforts to help the growth of trees that are suffering from prolonged heatwaves and droughts. The city government [...]
JEJU, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of so-called ‘urban wind ventilation forests’ will be planted across the city of Jeju on South Korea’s largest island of the same name. The provincial government of Jeju Island announced Thursday that it will invest 10 billion won (US$8.8 million) between now and 2022 to plant forests [...]
DANYANG, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Roadside trees with ‘mushroom haircuts’ in Danyang County, 193 kilometers southeast of Seoul, are attracting attention. The county office has pruned some 800 three-flower maple trees lining city streets and carried out pest control operations to create a beautiful landscape. The county planted plane trees along its streets in [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Hangang (Han River) Project Headquarters said Monday that it will plant 70,000 trees in the parks along the Han River this year. Since 2015, the city has planted some 1,080,000 trees in Han River parks. This year, the headquarters will plant 15,000 trees in Jamwon Hangang Park near [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced a plan to plant as many as 400,000 trees along 68 tree-lined streets and unused road spaces as part of efforts to reduce fine dust as well as to create rest areas for citizens. Unlike the past when the same trees were monotonously [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Forest Service (KFS) announced plans to plant as many as 3 billion trees by 2050 to reduce or absorb 34 million tons of carbon per year. In a press conference held on Wednesday at the government complex in Daejeon, KFS chief Park Jong-ho gave a briefing about [...]
DAEJEON, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent experiment has confirmed that trees planted along major thoroughfares did a better job of reducing fine dust compared to bare ground (revetment blocks). The Urban Forest Research Center at the National Institute of Forest Science measured the density of fine dust around forested areas and bare ground [...]
JEONJU, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Trees lining the streets of Jeonju, North Jeolla Province have been given warm clothes to wear for the winter. A total of 130 volunteers from the Jeonju Volunteer Center recently dressed up trees near Jeonju Hanok Village and Jeonju Station. Warm clothes help trees to survive the winter and [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea East-West Power Co. (EWP), a wholly owned subsidiary of state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), said Monday it will use trees damaged by a massive forest fire in Gangwon Province last year as eco-friendly fuel. A few days ago, EWP reached an agreement with the National Forestry [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday that it planted 8.27 million trees last year in various areas of the city, such as small pieces of land and vacant lots. This tally far exceeds the city’s annual target of 5 million. To cope with climate change and improve the urban [...]