South Korea is a leading importer of logs and timber, in contrary to the fact that Korea is full of mountains and forests. Unless people delve deep into the forests, it seems that it is very hard to find logs to export since the forests area is mostly controlled by governments with high security, or owned by individual capitalists. 90% of the country?s demand for timber is met through international trade, while 15% out of the demand is met through illegal logging. However, the South Korean government lacks the legislature to protect the trees from logging within Korea and out. Illegal trade of logging between countries is quite a bit more restricted, as the exporting country asks Korea not to buy timber resulting out of illegal logging. One example is Indonesia, who officially requested for Korea to ban imports of illegal logging in 2013. What this reporter finds most vulnerable in this situation is the trade of illegal logging within Korea. Legislation for these matters are seriously lacking and the problem is worsened when nobody pays attention to these problems. The people lack the interest in this problem, and statistics have not been revealed. The reason for this report is to stress the significance of this issue, and ask for comments from other foreign ambassadors about this issue. Is it common for countries to handle illegal logging this way, without any strict enforcement of legislation or attention?