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In small and medium-sized cities where large parks are not common, campuses function as parks and green areas with many trees. Meanwhile, a program that quantifies the functions of trees have been developed and used mainly in North America and Europe. Through this, the functions provided by trees can be quantified, and further, the programs show the value of trees to people even with the form of monetary units. It helps citizens to improve understanding and awareness of the importance of trees. However, in Korea, estimating the value of trees is limited to the forest management fields. Therefore, in this study, we attempted to evaluate the value of the trees especially on Kangwon National University campus located in Chuncheon-si. KNU campus provides citizens with green space, so we found out the value of trees in the forest area and green space on KNU campus in terms of regulating ecosystem services. The services are carbon storage and sequestration, air pollutant removal and capturing run-off. The value of the parameters of trees measured in green spaces are higher than in forest areas, but the density of trees in forest areas are higher than in green space. From these facts, there was differences in value between trees in forests and green spaces. While uncertainties remain without correction considering the area of forests and green spaces, these results can be utilised to show people the values and functions of trees quantitatively. Especially when planning and managing them with intention of improvement on tree management.