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Paper is made from trees. Use more paper, use more trees. Trees come from forests. Therefore, using more paper destroys forests. This is a long-standing misconception — one that falls apart under scrutiny. A useful analogy: eating more rice does not make rice paddies disappear, because farmers harvest the crop and replant. The same logic applies to paper. Just as rice is cultivated in paddies, trees for papermaking are grown on managed plantations, harvested, and replanted. The difference is timing — rice is replanted every year, while plantation trees take several years to mature. South Korea’s leading paper companies, including Hansol Paper, Moorim and Hankuk Paper MFG, have been running plantation programs at home and abroad, according to industry data released Friday. …The use of internationally certified raw materials is also expanding. Hansol Paper holds FSC certification across all its facilities and supplies certified products. KleanNara uses FSC-certified pulp in its Sunu tissue line and other products.