Meet Arirang Radio’s Wonders of Jeju DJ Joseph Kim
I’ve always wanted to have a microphone in front of me and not sing. About high school is when I realized maybe radio was for me. I was doing PA announcements and people were cracking up. The PA...
View ArticleKwon Hyeok Ran: Owner and baker of House Recipe Carrot Cake
“People ask me if I get bored living on an island. I tell them, Jeju isn’t an island. For me, it’s the center of the universe,” she says with a twinkle in her eye.
View ArticleNew documentary a ‘last chance’ to hear about Jeju shaman folk culture first...
“Jeju shamanism has been threatened several times,” said Rositano. “It has always been threatened really. There’s a famous event that happened in the 1850s called the 500 Shrines event. A priest from...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing conservation: Jeju Olle trail trash study set for March
I figured if I can't make it to every single one maybe I can connect with the community and get information from them as well. If they find themselves going out to an Olle trail, they could take a...
View Article[Interview] NGO founder, making around-the-world bike trip, arrives on Jeju...
People help you. Especially when you make a big trip, they can feel that. I was in a really hard pass in Slovenia and a car drove by and the guy just looked at me. Maybe 20 minutes later, he came back...
View ArticleKickstarter campaign to support Jeju shaman documentary builds speed
“I haven’t found a way to reach out to the local [Korean] community because Kickstarter is all in English. As far as the support for doing interviews, knowledge, and places to show the film, the Korean...
View ArticleJeju food social welfare enterprise breaks down barriers against the...
Peace Village was certified a social enterprise in 2008. This is defined as a company or organization which performs business activities while promoting social services such as jobs for disadvantaged...
View ArticleKorea, 1964: The photography of Klaus T. Moser-Maync
In the Army I got two weeks of R&R. I was in the band; I was a trumpet player. When I told the other guys I was going to travel in Korea they said, “Are you crazy? What is there to see?” All these...
View Article[Interview] Prof. Henny Savenije: History and Hamel enthusiast
"I knew very little about Korea. The only thing I had read was one book about Hamel. I thought it was a fascinating history. I have a habit of reading about the history of a country once I’m there....
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