The Korea Forest Service (KFS) will dedicate this year to promoting how the country successfully recovered its vast forests from the 1950-53 Korean War that devastated its land and spreading the know-how to developing countries, according to the agency s head.
Korea s government agency for forests is launching a satellite to more effectively contain natural disasters in mountain areas as well as to monitor the ecological conditions of forests in real-time, according to the head of the Korea Forest Service (KFS), Wednesday.
The 1950-53 Korean War left South Korea in a state of destruction and poverty only a few years after its liberation from Japan s 35-year colonial rule. With the war coming to a halt in 1953 as an armistice was signed, the South Korean government started building back the country and, after 70 years, the outcome is most notable in its economic accomplishment, most notably in the fields of automotives, semiconductor foundry, shipbuilding and nuclear reactor construction.