S. Korea's tallest seven-story wooden building to stand tall by 2024 in Daejeon

▲ This photo, provided by Korea Forest Welfare Institute, shows the aerial view of the Forest Welfare Comprehensive Education Center. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

SEOUL, March 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's tallest wooden building with 7 stories will be built in Daejeon by 2024.

The Korea Forest Welfare Institute announced on the 31st that it would hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the Forest Welfare Comprehensive Education Center, a training facility for forest welfare experts, in Gwanjeo-dong, Seo-gu, Daejeon on the 1st of next month.

The Forest Welfare Comprehensive Education Center, with an investment of a total 63 billion won, will be built on a site of 26,665 square meters with one basement floor and sever floors above the ground (total floor area of 9,812 square meters).

Offices, conference rooms and exhibition halls will be arranged in the main building.

In the education building, lecture rooms, experience rooms, and auditoriums will be built to improve the skills including commentary of the forests, forest guides for children, climbing instructions of the forest trails and healing instructions along the forest.

Of the 1,363㎥ of wood used for construction, 71% are domestic, coming from South Korea.

It will be built as a safe structure that can withstand two hours of fire and an earthquake of a 5.5 magnitude.

Additionally, Director Lee Chang-jae, from the Korea Forest Welfare Institute said, "The center will train 30,000 experts and will provide a high-quality service". He continued, "As a large scale wooden-constructed architect, it will support the 2050 Carbon Neutral Strategy of the Republic of Korea and encourage the use of domestic woods."

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Haemin Kim.)

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