"Up to 30% Discount on Natural Recreation Forest Fees for Families with Two or More Children"

The Korea Forest Service announced on the 10th that it will relax the criteria for fee reductions for multi-child families at national natural recreation forests from families with three children to those with two children.

With the fee reduction for multi-child families, households with two or more children are exempt from entrance fees when using the natural recreation forests, and facility usage fees are discounted by 30% for weekday rooms and 20% for camping facilities, and by 10% each for rooms and camping facilities on weekends and public holidays.

Provided by Korea Forest Service

Previously, the fee benefits applied to families with three or more children under the age of 19, but considering the recent decline in birth rates and changes in family composition, the Korea Forest Service explained that the multi-child criteria will be relaxed and applied starting from the 11th of this month.

With the fee reduction, when a multi-child family books a weekday 4-person room (based on the Forest House), the usage fee is discounted from 45,000 won to 31,500 won, and on weekends and peak seasons, from 82,000 won to 73,800 won.

The multi-child family benefits can be received through the integrated forest recreation platform ‘Sopnadeul-e’.

Over the past three years, the average annual number of discount cases for multi-child (three or more children) families among natural recreation forest users has been 11,944.

When the criteria are relaxed to two children, the number of households eligible for benefits is expected to increase more than sixfold, from about 338,000 households to about 2,244,000 households, according to the Korea Forest Service.

Nam Seong-hyun, head of the Korea Forest Service, said, “The Korea Forest Service will continue to improve regulations so that more citizens can benefit from forest recreation services.”

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