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The South Korean National Forest Inventory (NFI) is carried out by the Forest Resource Information Division of the Korean Forest Research Institute. The institute is a division of the Korea Forest Service (KFS).

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Kim, DH., Lee, SH., Ryu, KS. (2016). Republic of South Korea. In: Vidal, C., Alberdi, I., Hernández Mateo, L., Redmond, J. (eds) National Forest Inventories. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44015-6_35

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