Seoul Forest was created to meet people's desire for green space and recreational places in the city center. In the past, the forest was a favorite hunting ground of the royal family, and it underwent a variety of changes, as it housed the first water treatment plant in Seoul, then it was changed into a playground For golf, then a hippodrome, and finally converted into a family national park, and opened in 2002, Seoul Forest extends over an area of more than 1.16 million square meters, and consists of five parks: a cultural arts park, an ecological forest, a study field for nature experiments, and an ecological field for the land Wetland and Han River Garden.