Jeju’s New7Wonders of Nature status is still provisional, but well done to the campaign team. An amazing effort. http://t.co/rHh2gIBo [Read More]
Place: Jeju-do (page 3)
Selected publications
- Park Hyun-joo: Romancing on Jeju tr Paige Aniyah Morris, Amazon Crossing 2024
- Kim Sok-pom: Death of a Crow tr Christina Yi, Seoul Selection 2022
- Michael Gibb: A Korean Odyssey: Island Hopping in Choppy Waters, Camphor Press 2020
- E. J. Koh: The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir, Tin House 2020
- Changyong Yang, Sejung Yang, William O'Grady: Jejueo: The Language of Korea’s Jeju Island, University of Hawai'i Press 2019
- Kyoim Yun: The Shaman’s Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island, University of Washington Press 2019
- Lisa See: The Island of Sea Women, Scribner 2019
- Hyun Ki-young: Suni Samchon (Bi-lingual, Vol 3 – Division) tr Lee Jung-hi, Asia Publishers 2012
- Kim Sok-pom: The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost tr Cindi Textor, Columbia University Press 2010
- Hyun Ki-young: Aunt Suni tr Song Jong-do, Gak 2008
- Hyun Kil-un: Dead Silence tr John Michael McGuire, Kang Hyunsook, Lee Jin-ah, Eastbridge 2006
Last chance to vote for Jeju Island
Last chance to vote for Jeju to be ‘New7Wonders of Nature’. It’s in the top 10. If you haven’t voted already, vote now! http://t.co/tJyFmzwd [Read More]
Ajosshi visits the Jeju Teddy Bear Museum
A select group of bloggers are being taken on a tour of Jeju Island by Korea.net. Paul Ajosshi reports from the unlikely but cute attraction of the Teddy Bear Museum: Too Much To Bear http://bit.ly/soBby4 [Read More]
A slice of North London in Seogwipo
A slice of North London in Seogwipo: North London Collegiate School opens overseas campus in Jeju-do http://t.co/waEFr82X, 26 September 2011. [Read More]
Jeju-do’s youngest Haenyeo
Jeju-do’s youngest Haenyo is poised to continue family tradition – nice to know there is at least one diver under 50 http://bit.ly/ocg3F2 #. Kim Yeon-ji (24) was born on Marado, south of Jeju-do, where there is little apart from a lighthouse and a few houses. (Image of Kim Yeon-ji sourced from Yonhap) Marado (마라도). (Source: … [Read More]
British tenor made ambassador for Jeju
Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts becomes Jeju’s goodwill ambassador (the day after I become Sancheong’s) http://bit.ly/kazB1y # [Read More]
Lee Jung-seob: a wartime artist taking refuge in Jeju-do
Seogwipo, Jeju-do, Saturday 7 May 2011. Lee Jung-seob (이중섭) (1916-1956) is one of Korea’s best-known post-liberation painters. His work is perhaps appreciated by artists and connoisseurs more than members of the public. His contemporary Park Soo-keun, with his unthreatening and nostalgic rustic scenes, is almost a household name. Lee’s work however is more varied, combining … [Read More]
2011 Travel Diary day 8: Seogipwo’s Lee Jung-seob museum and Jeju’s stone tomb guardians
Jeju Stone Park, Saturday 7 May 2011. We wake up on our second morning in the Stone Park. We go on a pleasant stroll through the parks’s extraordinary recreation forest. The part of the forest accessible from the Stone Park has had pathways sensitively constructed enabling families to enjoy the unusual gnarled shapes of the … [Read More]
2011 Travel Diary day 7: Baek Un-cheol and Seolmundae Halmang: a lifetime’s obsession with stones and their stories
Jeju Stone Park, Friday 6 May 2011. “I fell in love with Seolmundae Halmang, and now I can’t love any other woman” says Baek Un-cheol, honorary director of Jeju Stone Park. Maybe it explains why he is single. No earthly woman can compete in his affections with the legendary earth mother and creator of Jejudo. … [Read More]
2011 Travel Diary day 6: 16th century scholarship and a 21st century obsession
Sancheong-gun, Thursday 5 May 2011. We have a light breakfast of coffee, fruit and muffin at the pension. We are sitting outside in the sun: it is the start of a beautiful day. Mr Min arrives, and the pension owner greets him. Through the faint haze, they point out the distant peak to me: Cheonwangbong. … [Read More]
Win a honeymoon on Jeju Island
Here’s a nice little promotion which brings together a celebration of the UK Royal Wedding and the promotion of Jeju Island, that favourite of honeymoon destinations, as a candidate for New 7 Wonders. Plan your ideal honeymoon itinerary, and then get a chance to realise it. There’s lots to see on Jeju-do, but one of … [Read More]
Book review: Kim Sok-pom — The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost
Kim Sok-pom: The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost Translated by Cindi Textor Columbia University Press, 2010 (114pp) Originally published in Japanese, 1970. What seems to be new entrant in the Korean literature in translation market is more complicated than it first seems. The author, Kim Sok-pom, is actually a second-generation zainichi Korean resident in Japan, … [Read More]
Bae Chang-ho’s The Trip at the KCC
A special screening of a film set in that favourite of honeymoon destinations, Jeju Island. The Trip 7pm, Thursday 21st April Director: Bae Chang-ho Cast: Park Joo-hee, Oh Yeong-sook, Kim Yu-mi, Park Sang-gyoo Genre: Drama Certificate: 15 (South Korea) Running Time: 147 mins Venue: The Korean Cultural Centre UK Ground Floor, Grand Buildings 1-3 Strand, … [Read More]
Regular screenings of films shot in Jeju-do at the KCC
If you’ve been to an event at the KCC over the past couple of weeks, you’re bound to have come away with a little brochure publicising the undoubted merits of Jeju-do and its strong claims to being one of the New 7 Wonders of the World. I popped in to the KCC yesterday afternoon on … [Read More]
1948 Cheju uprising remembered in newly-translated novel
Looks like an interesting new book about to hit UK bookshops on 29 September, from Columbia University Press: The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost by Kim Sok-pom The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident … [Read More]
The April 3rd Massacre Tree
An alternative, historical, tourist destination in Jeju – the April 3rd Massacre Tree. Great article in Jeju Weekly highlighting the incident whose wounds are still felt today. http://bit.ly/4Lwr07. # [Read More]