A newborn female giant panda and her mother panda Ai Bao / Courtesy of Samsung C&T
Korea's only giant panda family has grown once again.
Everland, the country's only zoo housing giant pandas, announced Wednesday that female panda Ai Bao gave birth to a healthy female cub on June 3, marking the third successful giant panda birth in Korea.
The newborn joins her older sisters — Fu Bao, born in 2020, and twin sisters Rui Bao and Hui Bao, born in 2023 — making Ai Bao and her mate Le Bao the parents of four daughters.
The birth carries added significance as 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of Everland Panda World and a decade of joint panda conservation research between South Korea and China.
