Mt. Gariwang

Ben Jackson
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After the Olympics: Can One of South Korea's Oldest Forests Be Restored?

The 2018 Paralympics is opening on Mar. 9, providing a valuable opportunity to highlight one of the Olympics’ biggest, but often unmentioned, environmental scandals: a series of wide scars running through what was once a protected ancient forest. Environmentalists reacted with outrage in 2014 when the South Korean government