[Herald Interview] KFS seeks to boost youth employment

5 February 2015
The Korea Herald
Economic land concessions and plantations / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease
Korea Forest Service (KFS) / Korea Green Promotion Agency / Shin Won-sop

Korea Forest Service (KFS) has been working to promote overseas partnership with Southeast Asia countries by aiming to expand afforestation by 1 million hectares by 2050 from 314,000 hectares in 2013. It established relations with Indonesia to collaborate in planting trees on 700,000 hectares, and with Cambodia for a 200,000-hectares afforestation project in 2009.The afforestation projects, will help Korea secure necessary wood resources for sustainable growth, and create jobs for the young.

 Park Hyong-ki and Lee Kwon-hyung
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