Mission

The Korean Mountaineering League is committed to work as a non-governmental, non-profit organization to help preserve Korea's highlands. Through campaigns, collaboration with other NGOs, and education and practice of the Minimal Impact Code, it is our goal to ensure the natural integrity of Korea's mountains, their ecology, their cultural heritage, and their remarkable splendour.

The Korean Mountaineering League was developed for the purpose of mountain conservation. Our primary prerogative is to work for the preservation of Korea's mountain environments. As a non-profit NGO, the KML relies heavily on member support and donations.

The monies received by the KML are allocated for funding expeditions. These expeditions put KML members and volunteers on mountains where the workers clean trash from the environment. The trash collected is completely removed from the mountain and properly disposed of. Recyclable materials are removed separately and recycled.

In addition to inspection and cleaning of trails, the KML observes and measures erosion in the parks. Currently, the KML has begun working with the Gangbuk District Office of Seoul to help in maintaining the parks, with a concentration on erosion and education. With the Office, KML is especially focusing on Bukhansan National Park, part of which falls within the boundries of Gangbuk District.

In order to gain support for our mission the KML must make its actions known. What we do is hard, dirty, yet very necessary work and we greatly need the public's assistance. Through campaigns and advertising we hope to spread environmentalist education to the broader, concerned public.

By working closely with other concerned groups, the KML is committed to the difficult task at hand: to gain public support; to lobby against the government's decisions that aim to weaken mountain ecology; and to keep the mountains pristine and biologically diverse. We are committed so that Korea's prosterity may enjoy their rights to a naturally wondrous, and mountainous, homeland.

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