Sangumburi ( 산굼부리)

Sangumburi Crater is the crater of an extinct volcano. Visitors can walk around this beautiful cater. You can see a field of reeds in Sangumburi. You can take a picture with your lover.

It's real glorious view that you can feel in the picuture.

Sangumburi gives your mind at rest.

I recommend this place who feels tired or who wants to have precious memory with friends, lover and family.

Jeongbang Water fall in Jeju

Jeongbang Falls, located in Donghong-dong, Seogwipo City. It’s one of the top three waterfall in Jeju. This water is the only one falling directly to the sea in Oriental countries. It attributes foreign tourists and also Korean tourist. You can feel fresh if you visit here. I think it’s one of the attracting view in Jeju. The waterfall at an altitude of 23 meters is a picturesque sight indeed especially with cliffs, the sea, and several small islands offshore.
If you visit Jeongbang water fall, it will stay with you as a happy memory.

VISIT IN JEJU~

Women Divers in Jeju Island

Have you heard about women divers? They are only found in Korea and Japan. Women divers are symbols of Jeju Island. But they are dramatically decreasing. Jeju women divers have peaceful smile on their wrinkled face. It makes them friendlier like our grandmothers. They make sounds like “Ho~oi! Ho~oi”. It’s ‘Sumbisori’. Sumbisori means the sound of a long exhale after submersing themselves at the bottom of the ocean and catching marine products. Isn’t it miraculous? ^.^

The woman who dives for a living and catching marine products holds their breath for about 2 minutes at the depth of approximately over 10m below sea level. Most of the woman divers engaged at this kind of job since the age of 12 to 14 year old. Now, there are about 5600 woman divers in Jeju.

It’s a rare job in Korea. But unfortunately due to unfavorable situations, woman divers are decreasing in number. I recommend tourists to see woman divers as they set foot in Jeju Island. It will be good opportunity, witnessing one of Korea’s cultural heritages.

There is Seongsan ilchulbong, Jeju, UNESCO’s world natural heritage. If you go there you can watch Jeju women diver’s performance! The performance starts at 1:30PM and 3:00PM. You have to check schedules first before you go. Watch how they dive and gather seafoods and marine products, you can also buy them. It’s really fresh! The best thing that I can recommend is to take pictures with women divers. It’s a great way to capture and preserve the moments.

Oh, one thing I want to tell you is this to, “show respect them and clap loudly!” Most of the women divers are elder person. I think it’s important to boost their confidence. (It’s my own opinion.^^)

Listen carefully as they get out of the water. They make the sumbisori. It’s symbol of jeju women divers.

Teddy Bear Museum ( Jeju Island, Korea )

There is Teddy bear museum in Jeju Island, Korea. When you were still a kid, all you ever have was your Teddy bear as a best friend. There are so many kinds of teddy bears in this museum. It opened in 2001. It contains two galleries, a museum gift shop, and a museum cafe. You can see funny bears too like Disney bears, Charlie Chaplin bears, Mona Lisa bears and so on. There are even futuristic bears. They are so cute. It will definitely capture the child in us and every girl’s heart. After looking around to these lovely bears, you can drop by the teddy store. There are over 800 teddy bear products in the store. You can buy teddy bears, key chain, pencil case etc...

Visit Jeju teddy bear museum. You will enjoy looking around the variety lovely teddy bears...

Teddy means?
Two conflicting stories about the origin of teddy bear came out in the early years. But the well known story was that the toy “Teddy bear” came after Theodore Roosevelt’s name. It was November 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt went bear hunting. Unfortunately, He didn't catch a bear. So one of his presidential aides recommended him to capture bear cubs but Roosevelt refused. He thought it's not against the laws of nature and should let the cubs loose and wander freely. It became a political cartoon in Washington post. Then, people started to call Roosevelt, Teddy.