Shihyun Lee – The British School student is among many other proud ones who contributed their bit in saving the ecological balance by planting saplings at the Thousand Shades Butterfly Park here in Gurugram on Saturday, October 27.
For the 15-year old Lee who loves flowers and their aroma, it was nothing less than a lifetime achievement to plant a Jasmine plant. The plant will have a name plate in her name.
A group of Korean students aged between 5 and 18 and some of their parents visited the park to plant saplings along with their parents.
These included Kyoung Bin Park, Ju Won Kim, Bo Wyung Kim, Ga Nyun Son, Win Kya Park, Eun Hyuk Son, Suk Hyun Son, Luna Nishida, Coyi Nishida, Sumi Woo and Yu Jung Kim.
Residents of Gurgaon, these students come from The British School, GD Goenka World School, Pathways World School and Excelsior International School.
“It’s for the first time in my life that I have planted a sapling. I never did it earlier. It gave a sense of accomplishment and made me feel proud because I contributed towards saving the environment. We all should plant more and more trees so that we can save our earth from pollution and offer the living beings safe environment,” Lee said adding that she would now plant a sapling in the balcony of their house too.
Korea too hosts many flower festivals in various seasons.
According to Eunyoung Jung – a resident of Gurugram and representative of Missy India group, people of Korea too love nature and green environment, and also promote good nature practices.
“Korea hosts Rose Festival during spring season and Chrysanthemum Festival around November. People in huge number throng these places,” Jung said.
The 18-acre park in Gurugram is frequented by many communities including Koreans and Chinese, individuals as well as corporate citizens.
Visitors can visit the park and adopt a plant for lifetime by paying 750 INR and the plant will have a name plate for them as well as mark of remembrance.
According to Sanjay Kaushik – the founder of Thousands Shades Butterfly Park, an initiative by his Uthaan NGO, it was for the first time that the people from Korean community came with their children to the park and encouraged them to plant saplings.
“These parents have passed the baton to their children for saving the earth from pollution hazard and are inculcating the good habit of saving the nature. A total of about 850 people have adopted and planted trees here. Koreans too planted about 65 trees here. Now their children too are coming forward,” Kaushik said.
He said that recently the managing director of a Chinese company too visited the park along with his employees and planted trees here.
