Wool or thread bombing
Trees in the cold? Koreans knit blankets to protect trees from low temperatures. Since ancient times, in traditional Korean culture, trees were considered more than just an earthly plant; they were sacred trees.
Also, South Korea is one of the many countries that live through the four seasons of the year and in December they have to go through the really cold winter season.
For this reason, a community of elderly people in “Jeongdong-gil” have a wonderful custom every winter. It is a practice in which the elderly take their needles and knitting elements to make blankets or coats that they wrap around the trunks of the trees. This art, also known as “wool or thread bombing,” initially sought only to recover the trees and personalise sterile or cold public places, but now it has advanced as a positive influence to recover traditional arts such as knitting and crocheting and with it, to care for and shelter their trees in busy avenues with a lot of pollution.
Likewise, when Korean trees are sick, they are treated with serums that are injected into them through plastic containers so that they can drink from them over time and recover in the spring and summer.
