Hallasan: What Every Visitor to Jeju Must Know
Traveling to Jeju? You need to know something about Hallasan. When a mountain sits in the middle of the island, it’s not just going affect your trip planning. It also influences the weather!
Six Food Experiences You’ll Cherish Long After You Leave Jeju
Forget overpriced tourist markets and tourist traps. The best food experiences in Jeju aren’t the ones marketed to visitors—they’re the ones locals dig into in the evenings or weekends with family and friends. Find out what makes Jeju’s food culture so unique, and why you’ll cherish these memories long after you go home.
Email 6/14: Manjanggul Lava Tube – Walking Through Hallasan’s Veins
Hallasan may be the source of the black rock walls. The basalt cliffs. The beaches.
But what you don’t see from the surface is an extensive underground network of lava tubes, like Manjanggul.
Email 5/14: The Haenyeo – Women of the Sea
Haenyeo are Jeju’s female free-divers who harvest seafood—abalone, sea urchins, conch, octopus, sea cucumbers, seaweed—from ocean waters surrounding Jeju, all without breathing gear. Welcome to the submarine world of the Haenyeo.
Email 4/14: Hallasan – The Soul of Jeju
Hallasan is South Korea’s tallest mountain. Without Hallasan, there is no Jeju. For amazing views, here’s how to climb all or part of it, on your terms.
Email 3/14: Wild Dolphins & Jeju’s Fabulous Coast
Here’s how to spot wild dolphins on the Jeju coastline without paying for a boat tour, and where to find the island’s most spectacular sunset.
Incheon to Gimpo Airport: Train, Bus, or Taxi? (Time & Cost Compared)
So you’re bypassing Seoul for now and need to get from Incheon Airport to Gimpo Airport to catch your domestic flight to Jeju. Here are 3 ways to make this connection, depending on your budget and connection time.
Email 2/14: Butcher Shop BBQ – How Locals Actually Eat
Forget Black Pork Street. Forget the tourist BBQ restaurants with English menus and tourist prices. Instead, walk into a butcher shop, choose your meat from the refrigerated cases, pay butcher-shop prices, then walk upstairs and grill it yourself.
Email 1/14: Seongsan Ilchulbong – Where Fire Met Water
Seongsan Ilchubong gives you the dramatic volcanic experience—standing on a crater rim, seeing the geological power that created this island—without requiring summit-level fitness. It’s accessible to almost anyone who can handle stairs.
The Last Chapter of The Jeju Sea Women Story
The sun is setting on the Haenyeos of Jeju, South Korea. Maybe even forever. These female free divers brave cold waters and strong currents to harvest seafood by free-diving up to 20 meters. No scuba tanks. No lines for air. Just their lungs and their skill.