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Busan to Build the Biggest Urban Arboretum in the Nation

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Busan City announced that it will construct an arboretum covering a 540,000 square meter plot, a gym on a 101,000 square meter plot and a solar energy-generating facility covering a 21,000 square meter plot on the 662,000 square meter Seokdae landfill site, developing them in phases as part of its "Green Ways" project.

 

With 56.3 billion won provided by the central and Busan City governments, construction will begin in 2011 and finish in 2016. It will be the biggest urban arboretum among the nation's 24 national and public arboretums when it is finished.

 

What is special about the arboretum is that it will introduce the concept of "Forest Therapy" for the first time in the country, under the slogan "Plant life in a landfill." "Forest Therapy" refers to one's ability to recover one's health or energy levels by experiencing the forest through stimulation of one's senses - one's sense of sight through the beauty of the forest scenery, one's sense of smell through its aroma, one's sense of hearing through the sound of the wind, water and birdsong in the forest, and one's sense of touch too.

 

Busan City is also planning to build a "Green Way" linking the mountains nearby and the Heo-dong catchment area, and to develop a "Forest Therapy" tour program in conjunction with medical institutions and accommodation providers. The city also intends to use the arboretum as the basis for a tree hospital and an urban arboretum research center for Northeast Asia, in connection with the APEC Climate Center

 

The source of news : BFIA