Gyeongbuk Province Invests 20 Billion Won to Create Urban Wind Path Forest in Gyeongju

Including 10 Billion KRW in National Funding, Completion Scheduled for 2025

On the 17th, Gyeongbuk Province announced that it will create an urban wind path forest in Gyeongju, a representative historical and cultural tourist city in Korea, as part of efforts to improve air quality and practice carbon neutrality.

A total project cost of 20 billion KRW, including 10 billion KRW in national funding, will be invested in this project, which is expected to connect major forests in the thousand-year-old city of Gyeongju as hubs, providing a pleasant air environment for residents and external tourists within the living area.

Promotional image of the Doshi Baramgil Forest.

The principle of the urban wind path forest is an ecological system that uses the pressure difference between day and night to draw clean and cool air generated by forests created on the outskirts of the city into the city through connected forests, and greens the urban area with various forests suited to its characteristics, thereby circulating air to discharge pollutants such as fine dust and hot air outside.

Gyeongju City plans to finalize the project sites by August this year through a detailed design service analyzing wind and environmental factors throughout the city, and aims to complete the urban wind path forest by 2025.

Choi Young-sook, Director of the Environment and Forestry Resources Bureau of Gyeongbuk Province, said, “With the creation of the urban wind path forest, we expect to provide a pleasant environment for residents exhausted by the COVID-19 era and tourists visiting Gyeongju, as well as enhance the city's status by adding landscaping beauty to the urban area.”

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