The Department of Environmental Horticulture has the same history as UOS. Their aims are to upbring garden products, to cure and prevent diseases of the plants, etc. Unlike other majors of undergraduates, the classes of Environmental Horticulture take place mostly in 7 laboratories and around 5 green houses.
The greenhouses are small jungles filled with many kinds of plants such as roses, orchids, chrysanthemums, lettuces and many other equipments for research.
The laboratories are Environmental Flor. Laboratories, Plant Environmental Control Laboratory, Urban Environmental Laboratory, and Plant Cell Engineering Laboratory. And when students become a junior, they have to choose one of the laboratories according to the field that they want to study. The Environmental Horticulture opens the Chrysanthemum Exhibition in Children’s Park every autumn.
In the Chrysanthemum Exhibition, people have the chances to see many kinds of chrysanthemums from the ones that are familiar to us to the new types. Along with many types of chrysanthemums, the department of Environmental Horticulture also decorates chrysanthemums in many different ways in the display, for example, making a colorful Korean peninsula with a bunch of chrysanthemums making its beauty richer.
This event is especially noticeable since it takes place in outside of the school which can make people other than the students of UOS appreciate the work. After graduating, most students are being employed at work places related to the major such as laboratories in Rural Development Administration, Agricultural and Fishery Marketing Corporation, plant nursery companies and also nowadays more and more graduates are becoming green interior, the job that’s been gaining in public favor.
Even if there are all kinds of technology developing faster and greater, it would be impossible for human beings to live without nature.
Preserving and developing our nature is not just about money, it is about consistency of the mankind. Thinking of all these matters, the need and the importance of Environmental Horticulture was, is and will be necessary as long as we exist on earth.
Park, Bum-soo Reporter
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