"Need to Expand Forest Products Insurance to Include Pine Mushrooms and Timber"

Over 80 Short-Term Income Forest Products Only 8 Covered by Disaster Insurance "It's like fixing the barn after losing the cow, but the barn still needs to be fixed. For forestry workers, that's the 'Forest Product Disaster Insurance'." The Forest Fire Special Committee of the Korea Forestry Successor Association's Jeon Dae-hyun, co-chair (and Gyeongbuk Provincial Chapter President), urged the "expansion of forest product disaster insurance items" as part of the countermeasures for this year's large-scale wildfires in the Yeongnam region. Since the special committee was formed in late April, the chair has been raising his voice about the need to expand forest product disaster insurance items, along with practical compensation for forestry workers such as continuous disaster relief payments and expanded restoration unit prices for major damaged forest products. In a recent meeting with the special committee members at the Korea Forestry Successor Association office in Daejeon, Jeon ...