Korean Christmas trees

Korean_firLearned today that the Korean fir tree–the Abies koreana–is considered one of the world’s most popular Christmas trees.  The tree is indigenous to the mountains of southern Korea, namely, Mt. Halla, Mt. Deogyu and the Jiri Mountains, although the tree was taken to the United States and Europe in 1905, where it would be cultivated as a major money maker.

Pic ripped off from The Mirror.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on November 24, 2005 at 1:04 pm, filed under South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

5 Comments

  1. Michael your flag
    Posted November 24, 2005 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

    Interesting, didn’t know the trees were from Korea.

  2. The Marmot your flag
    Posted November 24, 2005 at 1:43 pm | Permalink

    Neither did I — just noticed it on Naver today.

  3. juan your flag
    Posted November 24, 2005 at 3:44 pm | Permalink

    Didn’t know either, interesting tidbit.

  4. kushibo your flag
    Posted November 24, 2005 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

    This is a lie! VANK got to the Willow Pond Farm. Promised to stop bringing the black vans around if they’d say America’s Christmas trees came from Korea.

  5. juan your flag
    Posted November 26, 2005 at 12:53 am | Permalink

    Tahaha :-)

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*