Gwangyang City Wins Excellence Award at Jeollanam-do Forest Education Competition

Gwangyang City Recreation Forest and Forest Healing Instructor Kang Young-nan

Gwangyang City in Jeollanam-do announced on the 19th that it won the Excellence Award in the forest healing category at the ‘2023 Jeollanam-do Forest Education Competition’ hosted by Jeollanam-do.

This competition was organized to expand opportunities for forest healing and recreation and to secure competitiveness in professional skills in the forest education service sector. It was divided into three categories: forest healing, forest interpretation, and early childhood forest education.

[Photo by Gwangyang-si]

In the forest healing category, instructor Kang Young-nan presented a demonstration titled “Gi (氣) Unchan Life Program,” effectively expressing the goal of “healthy elderly care in the rapidly aging era” through various forest healing elements of Baegunsan Forest in Gwangyang. The presentation received great acclaim from the judges across various evaluation areas.

Kang Young-nan, a forest healing instructor, said, “I am grateful to Park Kyung-ja, head of the Forest Love Association, and the staff of the Gwangyang City Recreation Forest Department who helped prepare for this competition. We will do our best to develop and provide programs that enable visitors to Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest to enhance physical vitality and positive thinking through diverse experiences in the forest.”

Im Kyung-am, head of the Recreation Forest Department, said, “Winning the Excellence Award at this competition has become an opportunity to widely promote the reputation of Baegunsan Natural Recreation Forest. We will continue to support the development of forest healing programs without hesitation.”

Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Heo Seon-sik hss79@asiae.co.kr

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