The KT&G Welfare Foundation (Board Chairman Gwak Young-gyun) conducted activities for the “Ecological Restoration of Bukhansan National Park Byways and Damaged Lands,” with 300 university students, including KT&G’s undergraduate volunteer group “Sangsang Volunteers,” participating on last April 20.  

These volunteer participants planted 900 trees native to Mt. Bukhansan, including sargent cherry and Korean mountain ash, while cleaning up the area of the scenic trails in the park, such as restoring some trail sections damaged by many mountain climbers and installing byway control facilities.

The KT&G Welfare Foundation continued the project of “Planting Trees at Naksansa Temple” from 2006 to the previous year, and planted a total of 38,000 trees to revive the Naksansa forest, which was destroyed by a forest fire. As the Naksansa forest was restored to its original state, the Foundation set out this year to undertake the ecological restoration of Bukhansan National Park with the aim of preserving the municipal natural park.

An official from the management office of Bukhansan National Park asked that “the visitors use the designated scenic trails so that the surrounding forest, which undergraduate volunteers worked very hard to restore to its original state, may be well preserved,” saying that “we will take these volunteer activities as an opportunity to expand the project of ecological restoration of the Bukhansan byways and damaged lands with the cooperation of various companies and organizations.”

Meanwhile, KT&G has developed eco-friendly paper foil for use instead of unrecyclable aluminum foil, and also minimized the use of vinyl for carton packaging in order to strive for eco-friendly management.