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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/07/2026 20:13:00

Rising from the Korea Strait like a shield volcano pushed through the ocean floor, Jeju is South Korea's Hawaii — a volcanic island of UNESCO World Heritage geological formations, subtropical forests, dramatic coastal cliffs, spring canola fields, and a culture distinct enough from the mainland Korean tradition to have produced its own language (Jejueo, critically endangered), its own architectural vernacular of dark basalt stone walls, and the haenyeo (해녀) — the female free-divers whose centuri...