During the colonial period in the early 20th Century, around three years of the Korean War that broke out in 1950 after the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 and the postwar period of political and social turmoil, the forests on the Korean Peninsula faced severe devastation. As a result, the forest devastation rate exceeded 80 percent, and the growing stock was less than 10m³/ha in the early 1960s. Even when forest rehabilitation began in 1978, growing stock reached only 17m³/ha (in 2010, 125.6m³/ha). The soil productivity of forests that occupied 65% of the country remained extremely low, and forest resource development and the production base had been almost destroyed.
Therefore, forest resources were limited to collectable forest products such as fuel-wood, and the economic benefits to residents in rural and mountain villages were quite insignificant. At that time, it was urgent to restore forests to prevent forest disasters. (The rest omitted)

![Forest Researcher, Director Chul Sang Kim, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Senior Forest Researcher Jun Heon Jeon, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Researcher Ho Sang Lee, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Researcher Se Kyung Chong, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Researcher Bo Eun Yoon, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Assistant Researcher Kyung Joon Lee, Seoul National University, Professor Emeritus Hyun Deok Seok, Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI), Department of Forest Policy, Director KDI School of Public Policy and Management Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF), Republic of Korea
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The study of Korea’s economic and social transformation offers a unique window of opportunity to better understand the factors that drive development. Within one generation, Korea had transformed itself from a poor agrarian society to a modern industrial nation, a feat never seen before. What makes Korea’s experience unique is that its rapid economic development was relatively broad-based, meaning that the Forest Researcher, Director Chul Sang Kim, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Senior Forest Researcher Jun Heon Jeon, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Researcher Ho Sang Lee, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Researcher Se Kyung Chong, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Forest Researcher Bo Eun Yoon, Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Assistant Researcher Kyung Joon Lee, Seoul National University, Professor Emeritus Hyun Deok Seok, Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI), Department of Forest Policy, Director KDI School of Public Policy and Management Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF), Republic of Korea
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Knowledge Sharing Program
2013 Modularization of Korea’s Development Experience
Forest Resource Development in Korea
Preface
The study of Korea’s economic and social transformation offers a unique window of opportunity to better understand the factors that drive development. Within one generation, Korea had transformed itself from a poor agrarian society to a modern industrial nation, a feat never seen before. What makes Korea’s experience unique is that its rapid economic development was relatively broad-based, meaning that the](/image.do?type=idas&timeFile=/asset/2014/05/13/DOC/PREVIEW/04201405130131821032814.jpg)
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Forest resource development in Korea
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Project Category | Development Cases |
Material Type | Report |
Author(English) |
Yoo, Byoung Il; Kim, Chul Sang; Jeon, Jun Heon; Lee, Ho Sang; Chong, Se Kyung; Yoon, Bo Eun |
Publisher |
Seoul : KDI School of Public Policy and Management |
Date | 2014 |
Project | Development Cases |
Series Title; No | Knowledge Sharing Program: KSP Modularization |
ISBN | 979-11-5545-104-5 94320 |
Pages | 182 |
Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
Language | English |
File Type | Documents |
Original Format | |
Subject | Industry and Technology < Agriculture Territorial Development < Environment |
Holding | KDI School of Public Policy and Management |
Supervisor | KDI School of Public Policy and Management |
Organizer | Korea Forest Service; Korea Forest Research Institute |
Sponsor | Ministry of Strategy and Finance |
Project Term | 2013-01-01 ~ 2013-12-31 |
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