[Forestry and Fisheries Newspaper=Reporter Park Se-jun] In the new year, the Korea Forest Service announced changes to various systems and regulations, with a focus on strengthening responses to forest disasters and addressing regional depopulation. Under the policy vision of "Forests that save people, and people who save forests," the Korea Forest Service announced changes to forestry policies starting this year. The Korea Forest Service has been identifying improvement tasks to protect the lives and property of citizens from forest disasters and to address regional depopulation by promoting the influx of population into mountainous villages and increasing the income of forest owners. The main forestry policies and systems that will change from this year are as follows: First, policies to protect citizens from year-round and large-scale forest disasters will be improved and strengthened.