National Jangseong Healing Forest (Chuknyeongsan Cedar and Cypress Forest)

Chukryeongsan Mountain, home to the largest cypress forest in Korea, stretches widely across the border between Jangseong County in the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City and Gochang County in Jeollabuk-do. The cypress forest on Chukryeongsan was largely created through the efforts of Lim Jong-guk, a distinguished forest owner.
Lim Jong-guk reforested the Chukryeongsan area, which had become bare mountains due to indiscriminate logging during the Japanese colonial period and damage from the Korean War, planting 62 ha of Japanese cedar, 143 ha of Japanese cypress, and 55 ha of other species such as larch—roughly 2.5 million trees in total. This was accomplished over 34 years starting in 1956. The result is the dense 40- to 60-year-old cypress and cedar trees standing thickly in a broad evergreen forest belt covering 1,148 ha. Currently, the Korea Forest Service has purchased part of the forest (388 ha) and continues sustainable forest management.
In the cypress forest, 10 km of forest roads (林道) have been established for forest management, and a 'Healing Forest' specialized in cypress trees has been created, serving as a recreational space for visitors for forest bathing, forest experiences, and forest healing.
The National Jangseong Healing Forest (Jangseong Cypress Healing Forest) was selected as a Beautiful Millennium Forest at the 1st Beautiful Forest National Competition in 2000.

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