About
What is SoopCheWon?
Its environmentally-friendly design is aimed at enhancing user safety and convenience and making facility management more efficient. At SoopCheWon, we offer customized programs for all ages and types.
It has been established to perform various functions such as improving people’s awareness about the importance and value of our forest and actualizing social unification.
※ This has been certified as a program and institution through the Korea Forest Service, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and Presidential Committee on Green Growth.
Necessity
- With more time for extracurricular activities and growing interest in forests, youth and the general public can get forest experience by working five days a week.
- Youth and the general public are not allowed enough space and access to systematic education about forest.
- We need nature-friendly facilities that provide specialized education and programs for youth and the general public to get various forest experience.
- An active model needs to be proposed for a newly improved management of the existing youth training center and forest lodge
Purpose
- To provide a space and program where youth from urban areas can easily receive systematic education about the forest and trees
- Our Green Education on forests and trees helps youth develop positive emotions, better understand forest, and raise awareness of forest preservation.
- It provides the public with a place to hold various meetings, seminars, exhibitions, and conferences for related civic organizations, as well as to promote the forest.
Expected Outcome
- Establish a foothold for new forest recreation culture, and provide experience-oriented education by breaking away from the traditional standardized and collective education of youth training facilities.
- Provides youth with education and environmental awareness at environmentally-friendly facilities.
- Provides minority groups including youth, the disabled and children without parents with opportunities to experience forests.
- It is the first educational institution in Korea to adopt a qualification system for forest experience and focus on forest.
- It is an energy-saving building that uses green materials such as alternative energy sources, sunlight, and timber produced in Korea.
Structure of the Organization
director
Customer Satisfaction Team
Forest Education Team
History
2015
March 2015
Opened Chilgok Nanum
2014
July 2014
Constructed Chilgok Nanum SoopCheWon
May 2014
Name changed to Chilgok Nanum SoopCheWon
2013
March 2013
Ground-breaking ceremony
2012
September 2012
Completed basic and enforcement plan
2011
August 2011
Established basic plan
May 2011
Appointed Notice Recreational Forest (217ha)
2010
October 2010
Mt. 73-13 Seonggok-ri, Seokjeok-eup, Chilgok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do selected as the business location
April 2010
Decided to create 「Forest of sharing benefits」 at a conference of Korea Forest Service