Korea, Republic of

Table 55 - Korea Rep. - The change of forest area and volume by period

Classification	Unit	1910	1945	1960	1990	1995
Area	mil. ha	15.7	16.3	6.7	6.5	6.5
Volume	mil. m3	710	219	63.9	248	309
Vol. per ha	m3	45	14	10	38	47

Note: Data before 1945 is the data of the Korean Peninsula
Source : APFSOS/WP/06

Table 56 - Korea Rep. - Status of private forest ownership (1993)

Forest size (ha)	No. of owner	%	Forest area (ha)	%
-0.5	940,613	48.1	143,495	3.1
0.5 - 1	253,795	13.0	186,068	4.0
1 - 5	561,184	28.7	1,307,687	27.9
5 - 10	118,787	6.1	823,671	17.5
10 - 20	51,719	2.6	707,200	15.1
20 - 50	21,601	1.1	632,700	13.5
50 - 100	4,435	0.2	300,859	6.4
100	2,229	0.2	589,266	12.5
Total	1,954.363	100.0	4,690,946	100.0

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 57 - Korea Rep. - Forest land area by forest type (Unit: 1.000 ha)

Forest Type	1967	1970	1975	1981	1985	1990	1995
TOTAL	6,639	6,611	6,635	6,563	6,531	6,476	6,452
Stocked forest	5,650	5,693	5,976	6,287	6,263	6,278	6,263
Coniferous	2,946	3,268	3,201	3,256	3,281	3,079	2,876
Non-Coniferous	1,238	1,206	1,099	1,150	1,159	1,389	1,668
Mixed	1,226	1,219	1,676	1,881	1,823	1,810	1,710
Non-stocked forest	942	854	647	246	244	174	188
Bamboo	4	7	5	5	5	8	8
Unsurveyed	43	52	8	25	19	16	0

Note: Number may not add to total due to rounding
Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 58 - Korea Rep. - Reforestation by National Forest Development Plan

Classification	Total reforestation Area No. of seedling		Remarks
	thou. ha	mill. Seedling
Total	3,974	10,864
62-72	1,649	4,617	For erosion control & fuelwood estb.
73-78 (1st Forest Plan)	1,080	2,960	For fast growing tree plantation
79-87 (2nd Forest Plan)	966	1,915	For commercial reforestation
88-94 (3rd Forest Plan)	278	719	For natural forest management

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 59 - Korea Rep. - Forest area and stock by age class

Year	Area (1.000 ha)						Stock (1,000.000 seedling)
	Total	-10	-20	-30	-40	-50	Total	-10	-20	-30	-40	-50
1970	5,741	3,755	1,106	565	228	77	69	3	19	27	14	6
1980	6,287	3,134	2,151	553	325	123	152	5	71	28	32	15
1990	6,278	1,633	2,572	1,470	444	159	249	3	103	81	43	19
1995	6,255	1,093	2,513	1,999	469	181	309	-	106	128	51	24

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 60 - Korea Rep. - Trend of forest resources and harvest volume (1,000 m³)

Year	Growing volume (A)	Harvesting volume (B)	Ratio (B/A)(%)
1980	5,855	1.244	21
1982	6,608	1.205	18
1984	7,434	1.029	14
1986	7,870	1,105	14
1988	7,610	1,194	7
1990	8,871	1,077	12
1992	11,442	796	7
1994	13,020	896	7
Average	9,839	1,068	11

Source: Forestry Administration
Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 61 - Korea Rep. - Permit of annual tree cutting by Forestry Administration

Classification			Unit	1980	1985	1990	1995
Total		Area	1,000 ha	100	85	72	56
		Volume	1,000 m3	1,244	1.067	1,077	887
Final cutting		Area	1,000 ha	-	59	12	5
		Volume	1,000 m3	-	931	309	176
Thinning area		Area	1,000 ha	-	26	29	30
	volume	Volume	1,000 m3	-	135	191	205
Regeneration cutting		Area	1,000 ha	-	-	9	6
of interior stand		Volume	1,000 m3	-	-	137	124
Other		Area	1,000 ha	-	-	22	15
		Volume	1,000 m3	-	-	439	382

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 62 - Korea Rep. - Trend of log imports by source (Unit: 1,000 m³ - 1,000$)

Species		1960	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995
Hardwood	Quantity	712	2,852	4,661	4,486	3,228	3,483	1,656
	Value	24	113	236	661	281	418	289
Philippines	Quantity	222	888	264	82	67	-	-
Malaysia	Value	48	1,487	1,628	2,474	2,308	2,912	656
PNG	Quantity	-	-	-	133	841	571	997
Indonesia	Quantity	-	477	2,769	1,817	12	-	3
Others*	Quantity	44	303	458	1,655	2,350	4,550	6,573
	Quantity	2	13	33	198	198	543	758
USA	Quantity	18	236	448	1,043	1,494	2,971	803
New Zealand	Value	20	56	-	185	99	1,290	3,003
Others**	Quantity	6	11	10	427	757	541	2,769
Total	Quantity	756	3,155	5,119	6,141	5,778	8,285	8,229
	Value	26	125	269	858	479	990	1,047

Note: Others* is mainly softwood. and Others** is hardwood from other country except Philippines. Malaysia, PNG and Indonesia and softwood from other countries except USA. N.Z.

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 63 - Korea Rep. - Log consumption for sawn timber and production of sawn timber

Classification	Unit	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1994	1995
Production capacity	1,000 m3	4,650	6,392	7,936	7,704	7,507	8,089	6,549
Log consumption	1,000 m3	1,773	3,189	4,211	4,152	5,360	6,170	4,737
Imported logs		-	-	3,724	3,507	4,756	5,799	4,334
Softwood		-	-	-	2,201	3,466	4,505	3,826
Hardwood		-	-	-	1,306	1,290	1,294	508
Domestic logs		-	-	487	645	604	371	403
Softwood		-	-	-	499	512	292	372
Hardwood		-	-	-	146	92	79	31
Production of sawn timber	1,000 m3	1,148	2,241	2,977	2,952	3,897	4,041	3,440
Capacity utilization	%	38	50	53	54	71	76	72
No. of sawmills	factory	1,912	1,977	2,019	1,956	1,659	1,477	1,402
No. of employees	people	-	-	-	15,650	20,022	14,476	12,592

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 64 - Korea Rep. - The share of sawn timber by use

Total	Construction and Engineering	Packing	Agricultural Equipment	Other
100.0%	73.2%	10.2%	1.7%	14.9%

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 65 - Korea Rep. - Change of raw material for pulp (Unit: 1,000 m³)

Classification		1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Total		687	664	641	682	681	1,066	1,220
%		98.1	79.9	79.9	67.9	65.3	37.7	35.5
Mechanical pulp
	Subtotal	252	230	203	256	257	245	284
	Domestic pine	252	230	203	201	245	245	284
	Imported pine	-	-	-	55	12	-	-
Chemical Pulp
	Subtotal	453	433	438	426	424	821	936
	Domestic hardwood	236	187	204	192	141	132	149
	Domestic softwood	143	113	105	70	59	25	-
	Imported timber	56	133	129	164	224	664	787

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 66 - Korea Rep. -Trend of demand and supply for raw material to produce the paper (Unit: 1000M/T)

Classification	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Total	138	368	714	1,692	2,353	4,799	5,184	5,700	6,166	6,874
Domestic	72	182	303	749	1,085	2,176	2,418	2,636	3,150	3,826
Imported	66	186	411	943	1,268	2,623	2,766	3,064	3,015	3,048
Pulp	92	239	325	620	835	1,457	1,540	1,767	1,923	2,170
Domestic	33	80	94	167	268	301	324	311	449	521
Imported	59	159	231	453	567	1,156	1,216	1,456	1,474	1,649
Waste Paper	46	129	389	1,072	1,518	3,342	3,644	3,933	4,243	4,704
Domestic	39	102	209	582	817	1,875	2,094	2,325	2,701	3,305
Imported	7	27	180	490	701	1,467	1,550	1,608	1,542	1,399
Share of Pulp (%)	66.7	64.9	45.5	36.6	35.5	30.4	29.7	31.0	31.2	31.6
Production of Paper	120	330	662	1,680	2,312	4,524	4,922	5,531	5,840	6,435

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 67 - Korea Rep. - Ratio of board by use (Unit: %)

Classification	Total	Particleboard	Fibreboard
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0
For Kicken Furniture	34.9	55.0	-
For Office Furniture	19.5	25.0	10.0
For Instrument Cases	10.0	10.0	10.0
For General Furniture	26.5	5.0	60.0
For musical Instruments	4.1	-	15.0
Etc.	5.0	5.0	5.0

Source : APFSOS/WP/06

Table 68 - Korea Rep. - Production and consumption of plywood (Unit: 1,000 m³)

Classification	1966	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1994	1995
No. of factories	6	10	14	84	88	72	18	-
Production capacity	557	1,449	2,426	2,517	2,409	1,329	1,069	1,032
Production	445	1,067	1,809	1,575	1,227	1,124	886	974
Production per factory	74	107	129	19	14	16	49	-
Export	346	1,055	1,304	953	127	76	61	104
Import	-	-	1	23	11	735	1,003	1,307
Factory capacity utilization (%)	79.9	73.6	74.6	62.6	50.9	84.6	82.9	94.4
Consumption	97	234	502	691	1,035	1,746	1,837	-
share of import (%)	-	-	0.2	3.3	1.1	42.1	54.6	-

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 69 - Korea Rep. - The share of plywood consumption by use (Unit: %)

Classification	Total	Construction	Building Structure	Container	Furniture	Packing	Other
Total	100.0	35.7	18.0	3.0	37.2	0.2	5.9
Domestic	100.0	42.7	25.4	7.6	10.2	0.2	13.7
Import	100.0	31.2	13.2	-	54.8	-	0.8

Source : APFSOS/WP/06

Table 70 - Korea Rep. - Production of firewood (Unit: 1,000 M/T)

Year	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995
Total	5,604	4,700	3,180	1,401	224
Firewood	169	142	269	271	75
Charcoal	8	9	1	1	1
Branch	2,814	2,433	2,334	897	147

Source :APFSOS/WP/06

Table 71 - Korea Rep. - Production of non-wood forest product (Unit: M/T)

Classification		Unit	1980	1985	1990	1995
Chestnut	Production	M/T	42,826	72,000	85,043	93,654
	Export Amount	M/T	17,798	23,594	36,471	28,860
	Export Value	1,000$	36,771	37,427	94,279	114,768
Oak and Pine	Production	M/T	1,528	3,067	2,997	4,106
Mushroom	Export Amount	M/T	1,012	1,750	1,891	1,367
	Export Value	1,000$	24,225	43,453	76,595	79,185
Jujube	Production	M/T	641	3,774	5,953	13,180
Walnut	Production	M/T	161	706	906	1,311

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 72 - Korea Rep. - Trend of National Park Visitors (Unit: 1,000 person)

Year	Number of National Park Visitors	Number of Mountain-type National Park Visitors	Population
85	26,420	18,560	40,806
86	28,388	19,841	41,214
87	31,082	22,071	41,622
88	37,989	25,380	42,031
89	39,216	27,290	42,449
90	39,147	26,969	42,869
91	33,976	22,390	43,268
92	33,681	22,646	43,663
93	32,403	22,755	44,056
94	36,398	23,985	44,456

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 73 - Korea Rep.: Import of major forest products

Classification	Unit	1980	1985	1990	1995
Total value	1,000$	912,087	629,406	1,721,239	2,778,983
Wood sub-total value	1,000$	899,155	589,631	1,605,060	2,596,257
Round log quantity	1,000 m3	6,141	5,578	8,285	8,229
value	1,000$	858,228	479,356	990,474	1,047,332
Lumber quantity	1,000 m3	144	169	691	1,016
value	1,000$	7,535	29,179	166,661	408,530
Plywood quantity	1,000 m3	23	11	735	1,307
value	1,000$	14,357	5,059	256,164	593,861
Rubberwood value	1,000$	19,035	76,037	191,761	546,534
Bamboo quantity	M/T	24,324	7,953	5,499	621
value	1,000$	4,380	1,487	1,110	511
Others value	1,000$	8,552	38,288	74,472	182,215

Source: APFSOS/WP/06

Table 74 - Korea Rep. - Overseas Forestry investment of Korean companies

Country	No. of companies	Year	Amount of Investment	Size by type Forest Chip Plantation concession industry area
			1,000$	1,000 ha	1,000 m3/y	1,000 m3/y	1,000 ha
Total 15	25	68-95	229,228	4,084	1,198.5	520	11.6
Indonesia	7	83-91	43,340	835	477.0	-	5.6
Malaysia	4	88-95	5,470	-	106.0	-	-
Solomon	1	81-92	32,500	365	16.0	-	0.4
P.N.G.	2	89	46,150	285	92.0	-	-
Fiji	1	91	600	17	7.2	-	-
Myanmar	1	91	4,034	-	22	-	-
U.S.A.	1	90-95	4,515	-	30	-	-
Russia	2	92	17,500	846	196	-	-
Guyana	1	92	3,600	1,670	193	-	-
Cambodia	1	93	1,965	-	24	-	-
Australia	1	93	17,853	-	-	-	2.3
Vietnam	2	93	6,239	-	13	294	1.7
Chile	1	94-95	1,900	-	24	-	-
China	2	95	2,695	-	4.3	120	-
Nicaragua	1		43,937	66	4	-	1.2

Source: APFSOS/WP/06