Forest Service Announces Contest for High-Quality Domestic Wood Products... Supporting Sales Promotion

The Korea Forest Service plans to receive excellent domestic wood products for 15 categories through a public contest and support the promotion of sales for the selected products. Photo by Korea Forest Service

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Korea Forest Service announced on the 8th that it will select high-quality domestic wood products through a public contest and support the promotion of sales for these products.

The contest is being promoted with the purpose of activating the use of wood as a carbon absorption and storage source and making it easy to purchase domestic wood products in everyday life.

The contest schedule is from the 10th to the 24th of this month, and participation applications can be made through the websites of the Korea Forest Service, I LOVE WOOD, and the Korea Forestry Promotion Institute.

Participants in the contest must be companies registered as wood producers under the "Act on Sustainable Use of Wood" and can participate with domestic wood products that have passed the wood product specification quality inspection.

Domestic wood products selected through the contest will receive support from the Korea Forest Service for market development. Selected products will be posted in the dedicated online product guide for domestic wood on the official I LOVE WOOD campaign website, and these products will be given priority purchase opportunities in public sector wood utilization projects promoted by the Korea Forest Service, such as the wooden facility project for children's use facilities.

The wooden facility project for children's use facilities is a project that improves the indoor environment of daycare centers with eco-friendly domestic wood so that children can live comfortably and healthily indoors while directly touching and experiencing wood.

This year, the Korea Forest Service selected the target for the wooden facility project for daycare centers for the first time through a public contest. This project is carried out with support from the Korea Forest Service and local governments.

Kim Yong-gwan, Director of the Forest Industry Policy Bureau at the Korea Forest Service, said, "Until now, it has been difficult for the public to purchase domestic wood products," adding, "However, from now on, we will actively work to create an environment where people can safely and easily purchase excellent domestic wood products verified by the government."

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