KT said on April 5 it held a “rooftop forest-making” activity on April 3 on the rooftop of the KT Gwanghwamun WEST building, with children and parents from KT’s Gwanghwamun daycare center.

The activity is an urban ecology experience education program jointly prepared by KT and the National Institute of Ecology. It was arranged as part of a business agreement the two organisations signed in August last year on responding to climate change and conserving biodiversity. About 20 people took part, including children and parents as well as National Institute of Ecology officials.

Children and parents joined a hands-on, play-based class on learning about spring plants led by a specialist instructor from the National Institute of Ecology (Eco Platform Seoul). They experienced biodiversity by planting and tending plants themselves in a rooftop garden at the building.

KT will continue field-based participatory activities with the National Institute of Ecology to protect biodiversity, including ecology education for future generations. It also plans to gradually expand technology-based cooperation, such as ecological observation using information and communications technology (ICT).