Mujugun, Jeonbuk to Open Wood Culture Experience Center on Hyangrosan

Creating Woodworking Experience Center and Imagination Playground with a 5.2 Billion Won Budget

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Go Dallyeong] The largest wooden culture experience center in Korea, harmonized with greenery in the pristine Muju, is being established. On the 11th, Muju-gun announced that the wooden culture experience center is being constructed within Hyangrosan Natural Recreation Forest in Osan-ri, Muju-eup, Muju-gun, with the goal of completion in the first half of next year.

With a site area of 2,910㎡ and a project cost of 5.2 billion KRW (including 1.1 billion KRW in national funds), the wooden culture experience center will be built as a two-story building featuring a woodworking experience center, an imagination playground, exhibition facilities, and resting spaces.

Scheduled to be completed around January 2021, the wooden culture experience center will create a synergy effect within the forest welfare complex by adding the wooden culture experience center to the existing natural recreation forest facilities.

Additionally, it is gaining increasing value and importance by providing tourists with comprehensive knowledge, information, and hands-on opportunities regarding domestic wood, emphasizing the significance of wood.

The county plans to utilize the center as a learning and recreational space where children, families, and other tourists can easily experience and learn the basics about general wood while observing it. Furthermore, an eco-friendly indoor wooden playground for infants and toddlers made of wood will be prepared, serving as a space for imagination and experiential play where children can run freely.

Wood is attracting attention as an environmentally friendly and sustainably producible material that offers various benefits from the forest.

In particular, the wooden culture experience center is expected to be used as an experiential cultural space where visitors can feel the benefits of wood through comprehensive information on wood production and usage and direct hands-on experiences engaging all five senses.

The project began to take shape after being selected in 2017 by the Korea Forest Service for the wooden culture experience center contest project. Following basic and detailed designs in 2018, groundbreaking took place in April 2020, with plans to complete the experience center construction project by January 2021.

Muju-gun plans to provide all information related to wood and exhibit wooden artworks such as wood carving, woodworking, and root crafts.

In preparation for completion in January next year, Muju-gun recently appointed an advisory committee composed of experts to fully utilize wood in creating various experiential facilities.

Kim Seungjun, team leader of the Forest Greenery Division, said, “Once the wooden culture experience center is established on Hyangrosan, it is expected to become a place for relaxation, healing, wood experience, and education,” adding, “We will do our best to develop it into a nationally renowned premium forest complex recreation area.”

Meanwhile, the wood-based experience programs are expected to gain popularity as places for students to learn and experience, already increasing interest in the wooden culture experience center.

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