System and characteristics of forest trail in South Korea
As an improvement in the national income and leisure time drives more people to visit the forest trail for the purpose of recreation. One of the representative characteristics of establishment of forest trail in South Korea is that it focuses on the Baekdudaegan, which is the ridgelines of Korean Peninsula and ranges from Mt. Baekdu to Mt. Jiri, and Jeongmaek which is the continuous ridgelines of Baekdudaegan over 100km. The Sangyeongpyo, which is a traditional classification system of Korean Peninsula, demonstrates the concepts of Baekdudaegan in Korean Peninsula and Jeongmaek. However, only South Korea section of Baekdudaegan is available to walk on due to the situation of Korean Peninsula despite that it ranges between the entire Korean Peninsula. The total length of forest trail placed on the South Korea section of Baekdudaegan and the 9 sections of Jeongmaek is 701 km and 2,154 km, respectively. ‘Forest cultural recreation Act’ defines the Korean forest trail as a walkway established on the forest for the activities such as hiking, tracking, leisure sports, visit or recreation, healing. In the past, the most of Korean forest trail provided the basic vertical hiking culture based on Baekdudaegan mountain system. However, as the increase in recreational activities and needs for different activities in forest trail raised recently, the use type of forest trail has ranged from enjoying the surrounding area of mountain to leisure sports, healing and enjoying the scenery. Based on the change in the use type of forest trail, in 2011, the Act specified the concepts of forest trail into 6 types such as trails for hiking, tracking, forest leisure sports, visit or recreation, healing. 10 thousand forest trails in total are currently established in Korea and their length sum up to 40 thousand km. 93.5% of these trails are for hiking and they occupy 81.8% of the total length of all forest trail in South Korea. Keywords: Human health and well-being ID: 3484927
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cc4517en http://www.fao.org/3/cc4517en/cc4517en.pdf |
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