South Korea’s First Lady Kim Keon-hee planted a tree in Riyadh on Monday to mark the 61st anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol had visited the Kingdom earlier this week.
The tree-planting event, organized by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City (RCRC), took place at the Scientific Park in Riyadh.
Kim was received by Mayor of Riyadh Prince Faisal bin Ayyaf and Executive Director of Green Riyadh at RCRC Abdulaziz Al-Muqbel.
She was briefed on the Green Riyadh Project and its impact on improving the quality of life, on the remarkable growth that Riyadh is witnessing and on the various megaprojects being carried out in the city.
Green Riyadh is one of Riyadh’s megaprojects launched by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz with the aim of planting 7.5 million trees across the capital, increasing the per capita share of green space from 1.7 square meters to 28 square meters, and improving the urban landscape of the capital.
It also contributes to achieving one of the objectives of the Saudi Green Initiative and Vision 2030, which is to plant 10 billion trees across the Kingdom over the coming decades.
