Recent economic and income growth in Korea has caused people to seek healthier and happier lives. Forests are seen as spaces that provide tourism and recreation. The Korea forest service and local governments are developing and designating recreational forests but previous studies on the subject have only covered customer satisfaction and how forests are used. As such, the current study aims to find issues with designation criteria for recreational forests used by Gwangju city in Gyeonggi province and suggest improvements to the system. Site E was deemed the most adequate in evaluations of five candidate site. The criteria used in the evaluations were problematic due to (1) a lack of differentiating power in evaluation items, (2) blanket coverage of score ranges, (3) a lack of additional points for special sites, and (4) unclear evaluation indices. Based on the identified issues, the current study suggests introducing additional points and clearly detailing evaluation indices and items to enhance the evaluation of recreational forest candidate sites.

Abstract
1. 서 론
2. 재료 및 방법
    2.1. 연구대상지
    2.2. 조사 및 분석방법
3. 현행 자연휴양림 지정기준 개요
4. 결과 및 고찰
    4.1. 자연휴양림 후보지 타당성평가
    4.2. 평가결과분석 및 문제점
5. 결 론
REFERENCES

• 임은희(국립한경대학교 조경학과) | Eun-Hee Lim (Dept of Landscape Architecture, Hankyong National University)
• 염성진(국립한경대학교 조경학과) | Sung-Jin Yeom (Dept of Landscape Architecture, Hankyong National University) Corresponding author