The Korea Forest Service donates state-owned forest products such as pine mushrooms, lingzhi mushrooms, and pine nuts to rural residents.

(Daejeon=Yonhap News) Reporter Park Joo-young = The Korea Forest Service announced on the 2nd that it will donate nationally-owned forest products such as pine mushrooms, lingzhi mushrooms, and pine nuts, which have high added value, around the Chuseok holiday to increase the income of mountain village residents.

The system for donating nationally-owned forest products is implemented according to the "Act on the Management and Administration of National Forests" and is targeted at villages and resident communities that have signed a national forest protection agreement.

This system allows the collection of forest products to residents who participate in forest protection activities, and it is expected to contribute to the protection of national forests and the stabilization of the lives of mountain village residents.

In the spring of this year, sap from cork trees and wild vegetables were donated.

Over the past five years, the income of residents from the donation of pine mushrooms, lingzhi mushrooms, and pine nuts in national forests has been calculated at 21.7 billion won.

Last year, 743 cases of pine mushrooms, lingzhi mushrooms, and pine nuts were donated in national forests, generating 4.4 billion won, and after deducting 10% of the national treasury payment, the net income of residents amounted to 3.9 billion won.

Park Eun-sik, Director of the Forest Industry Bureau at the Korea Forest Service, said, "The donation of nationally-owned forest products goes beyond simply supplying resources; it also means helping to create income for mountain village residents and revitalizing local communities" and added, "In the future, we will continue to promote policies for the management and administration of national forests that can contribute to the lives of the people based on national forests."