The main purpose of the study was to analyze the current status and problems of the Korean Forestry Association`s activities, especially such as the forest produet`s marketing, accerding to its developmental process, and to suggest some strategies for improvement of the Forestry Association`s marketing. The study was conducted and analyzed on the basis of 111 Forestry Association`s management data collected in 1987 and 105 answers from the questionaries given of 141 Forestry Associations in 1938. The results obtained from the study could be summarized and concluded as follows 1. The developmental step of the Forestry Association was divided into 4 periods in the early 20th century, but the actuary development had been achieved since 1948 The Forestry Associations under『Forest Protection Extraordinary Law』 and 『Forest Law』 could not participate in the economic activities for the members because of Forestry Asociation`s major purpose such as the forest protection, After the enactment of Foretry Association Laws in 1980. the Forestry Associations could partly participate in the forest product`s marketing. 2. The Forestry owner`s cooperatives were established in about 20 countries over the world. In early 20, their premordern types were changed into modern types of Forestry Cooperative in European countries. In Japan, the Forestry Cooperatives were changed into entire cooperative types after 1951, and then developed into modern typos of Forestry Cooperative model. 3. The increase in forestry marketable products was due to its price rather than its amount. Especially exporting items such as chestnuts, oak mushrooms, pine mushrooms and domestically consuming items such as timbers, jujube nuts, black walnuts were the important item for marketing, and those occupied obout 72% of total marketable value in 1987. 4. In 1987, the revenues of the Forestry Associations business activities were 76.8% of the total, and the rest was grant from government and others. The 67.6% of expenditures were for working business, and the rest was personal labor cost and others. The working revenue increased by about 24%, compared to those in the year 1976 when the association`s fee was collected. 5. The working activities of the Forestry Associations were works for government agency and special project such as forest management and city landscape, of which revenue occupied about 67% of the total. However, those for marketing were only 30.7% of the total revenue. 6. The amounts of the Forestry Association`s marketing were very little. The 80% of all the Associations were belom the amount of 100 million cvon, and the 60% below 50 million won. The Associations which achieved the profit greater than 30 million won were 22 in members, and 11 Associations did minus profit in 1987. 7. Net profit rate of the Forestry Associations from forest product`s marketing was 30.4%, but the whole profit rate 14.6%. In Japan, its net profit rate obtained from marketing was 15.8% when based in 1985. Therefore the rate in Korea was higher than that in Japan. This indicates that Korean Forestry Association considered more importantly its own benefit rather than its member`s benefit which is more important in Japan. The rates by marketing items were as follows 13.5% for timber, 25.6% for by products, 46.6% for the seedlings and 14.8% for others. The revenus ration of marketing to whole profit was 56.1%. Among them, that of the seedling was 30.3%, and by products 19.5%. Therefore the Forestry Associations could be called a company dealing with the seedlings. 8. The marketing of the Forestry Associations dealed with the special items. Those were limited only 8 items such as timber, chestnut, oak mushroom, and pine mushroom for the export. 9. The monopolistic items noticed by Government become continuously free from limitations according to the current international trade conditions. Therefore such pine mushrooms dealt by the Forestry Association are expected to the