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[Yangkho]

Check this out:

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200312/kt2003121716160111410.htm

[Yangkho]

Terribly sorry, it's not an article, it's an editorial of sorts.

[Real Reality]

Korean mountains are green again. Unfortunately, the success of the reforestation does not mean that Korea is an environmentally-friendly society. But that is another story....
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200312/kt2003121716160111410.htm

[coolsage]

What a piece of jingoistic claptrap (with respect to the June Cleaver 'swear filter'). The Koreans themselves to this day display very little respect for what's left of their natural environment, routinely carting away entire hills to be deposited into the growing sludge around Incheon Airport, thereby contributing to the destruction of two ecosystems in one fell swoop. The pheasants and squirrels who used to live on that hill have nowhere to go, and the mussels and crabs who live on the tidal flats have mud poured on them, and they have nowhere to go. As to the 'forests', they are, in typical Korean fashion, all about appearance, not about reality. They are tree 'zoos', pretty but without substance. While the reforestation prgram here is commendable, a real forest takes more than fifty years to grow; it's not just about the trees, but about the diversity of life that takes form in and under those trees.

[Yangkho]

Jingoistic crap? Maybe you didn't read the whole thing. I think it's an honest, relatively balanced view by a foreigner who is willing to say things that most Koreans won't.

The previous devastation of the forests due to the Koreans themselves? Trees covering the mountains today thanks to President Park? The last sentence of the editorial, indeed, hints that the author doesn't think the environmental situation is that great in this country. Not jingoistic words by any means.

[rapier]

Great to see people finally linking a healthy and well managed natural environment, to financial/economic success.
Its only what conservationists have been shouting out loud for years. It makes absolute sense to maintain your countryside in as eco friendly and natural a way as possible.
The devastation currently being carried out in the south, (estuarine reclamation and the paving/concreting of rivers) will result in a huge drop in water quality and waterway instability.

Tamper with the natural world at your peril. Its evolved for many thousands of years, for the benefit of everything, us included.