Visit of Park Jong-ho, Korea Forest Service Chief, to Geochang-gun Wild Ginseng Cultivation Complex

Listening to the Difficulties of Forestry Workers Visiting the Mountain Wild Ginseng Cultivation Site Damaged by Heavy Rainfall

Park Jong-ho, Administrator of the Korea Forest Service, is listening to the difficulties in the cultivation of wild ginseng in Geochang County. (Photo by Geochang County)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] On the 4th, Park Jong-ho, Administrator of the Korea Forest Service, visited the damage site of the wild ginseng cultivation complex in Geochang-gun, Gyeongnam Province, and expressed his condolences to the forestry workers affected by the heavy rain along with Choi Young-ho, Deputy Governor of Geochang.

Recently, due to heavy rain, forest product damage occurred nationwide over an area of 1,021 hectares, with the high value-added wild ginseng damage area amounting to 30 hectares.

In addition, frequent typhoons caused numerous damages to public facilities such as landslides and forest roads, as well as to forest products including wild ginseng, balloon flower root (Doraji), and omija (Schisandra chinensis).

Administrator Park's visit aimed to listen to the difficulties of forestry workers and reflect them in policies by visiting Geochang's representative wild ginseng cultivation complex, which creates income through private forest management by pioneering markets and generating quality jobs through wild ginseng cultivation despite various challenging conditions such as the decline and aging of the mountain village population.

Deputy Governor Choi proposed, “We ask Administrator Park, who visited our county with interest in forestry workers, to actively support reflecting the difficulties of forestry workers in forest policies and minimizing the damage caused by the heavy rain.”

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