Forest cover was less than 40 percent in 1960, but this has now grown to 63.4 percent. Although the Republic of Korea has a timber industry, it relies very heavily on imported wood. Korean forests are now mainly valued for public goods rather than timber production. Reforestation was given greater priority from the early 1970s, when it was integrated with the high-profile rural development Saemul Udong movement, which was part of a broader economic development programme supporting agricultural intensification, industrialization and infrastructure development.