Korea Forest Service Announces 'Urban Forest Design' Contest...Pre-Registration Open Until Next Month 13

Last year's Grand Prize-winning work in the Urban Forest Design Competition (Damsurim). Provided by the Korea Forest Service

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Korea Forest Service announced on the 28th that it will accept pre-registrations for the "14th Korea Urban Forest Design Competition" from the 28th of this month to the 13th of next month.

The competition is held annually to discover ideas that maximize the functions of urban forests such as fine dust reduction, heatwave mitigation, and forest healing, and to apply them to urban forest creation projects nationwide.

This year's competition theme is "Everyday Life Found in Urban Forests." The competition sites are Suwon in Gyeonggi, Yeongyang in Gyeongbuk, Wanju in Jeonbuk, Geumsan in Chungnam, and Yeonggwang in Jeonnam. Participants can choose one of these locations to enter the competition.

Pre-registration can be done on the official website of the Urban Forest Design Competition.

After pre-registration, the Korea Forest Service will accept submissions from April 16 to May 6, and through first-round judging and second-round presentation judging in May, a total of seven outstanding works will be selected. Prize money totaling 14 million KRW will be awarded to the winners.

The final results will be announced at the end of May, and the winning works will be used as design materials for urban forest project sites in each region.

Kim Ju-yeol, Director of Urban Forest Landscape at the Korea Forest Service, said, "Design works submitted to the competition can be reflected in actual urban forest project sites," and added, "We hope for active interest and participation from university (graduate) students and the general public nationwide related to urban forests."

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