Woori Bank Supports Environmental Improvement Project for 'DMZ Peace Trail'

Providing Rest Areas for Visitors and Contributing to the Revitalization of Local Tourism

Woori Bank held a donation ceremony for the environmental improvement project of the "DMZ Peace Trail" with the Ministry of Unification at Woori Bank's headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 25th. Kwon Kwang-seok (right), President of Woori Bank, and Choi Young-jun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Unification, are taking a commemorative photo.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jin-ho] Woori Bank announced on the 26th that it held a fund transfer ceremony to support the environmental improvement project for the ‘DMZ Peace Trail’ in collaboration with the Ministry of Unification. The ceremony, held the previous day at Woori Bank’s headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul, was attended by Kwon Kwang-seok, President of Woori Bank, and Choi Young-jun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Unification.

The ‘DMZ Peace Trail’ is a project aimed at opening the DMZ to the public for the first time since the division of South and North Korea and developing it as a symbolic area of global ecological peace. In April 2019, three pilot areas?Goseong, Cheorwon, and Paju?were selected to start operating themed routes for visitors. From the 20th of this month, eight courses including Ganghwa, Gimpo, Goyang, Paju, Hwacheon, Yanggu, and Goseong were opened.

The transferred funds will be used to install pavilions and benches along the ‘DMZ Peace Trail’ courses in Gangwon Province’s Hwacheon, Yanggu, and Goseong, as well as in Cheorwon and Inje areas preparing for new openings, creating resting spaces for visitors.

Kwon Kwang-seok, President of Woori Bank, said, “I hope the DMZ Peace Trail will become a comfortable resting place for visitors weary from the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic,” adding, “Furthermore, it is expected to contribute to revitalizing local tourism.”

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