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Gimnyeong Maze Park 김녕미로공원
Gimnyeong Maze Park on the island of Jeju (Cheju) is a fun experience for visitors to the island. The maze was the brainchild of the American professor Frederic H. Dustin, a long-term teacher at Cheju National University.
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| Gimnyeong Maze Park, Jeju |
Shape
The maze is in the shape of the Jeju Island and has a number of symbols of this beautiful island embedded in its layout: a serpent, an historic object of worship on the island until recently, Jeju horses first brought here by Mongolian invaders in the 13th century; the Sparrowhawk, shipwrecked on Jeju along with Dutch mariner Hendrick Hamel and Bronze Age dolmens.
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| Gimnyeong Maze Park, Jeju |
Challenge
The Gimnyeong Maze is quite a challenge to get out of and some visitors have been known to take an hour to exit or have been forced to call for help. Usually, though 20 minutes is enough to navigate yourself around the immaculately kept hedges.
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| 김녕미로공원 |
Bell
Ring the bell when you finally get out. Gimnyeong Maze Park can easily be visited on a half day or full day taxi tour from either Jeju City or Seogwipo taking in the nearby Manjanggul Cave and Gimnyeongsagul Cave.
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| 김녕미로공원 |
Chinese Refugee Boat in Jeju City
A quirky tourist attraction in Jeju city on the island of Jeju (Cheju) in South Korea is a Chinese junk on the waterfront in which around 100 Chinese families fled civil unrest in China in 1950.
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| Chinese Refugee Boat in Jeju City |
Tour
For a nominal fee visitors can tour the reconstructed boat to see how the Chinese asylum seekers fled the turmoil of their own country to find sanctuary in South Korea.
The boat is a short walk north of Dongmun Market towards Raw Fish Town and the port.
Jeju is home to a number of immigrants and their families who left China for a better life in Korea in the 1940s and 1950s.
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| Chinese Refugee Boat in Jeju City |
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Posco Pavilion Yeosu 2012
The Posco Pavilion at the 2012 Expo in Yeosu is right next door to the glass Lotte Pavilion.
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| Posco Pavilion |
The world's third-largest steelmaker produced an impressive pavilion with five themes of Love, Challenge, World, Environment & Sea.
Other Korean company pavilions that exhibited at Expo 2012 included Samsung and Lotte.
Lucky Goldstar Pavilion Yeosu
The Lucky Goldstar (LG) Pavilion at the 2012 Expo in Yeosu is another high-tech pavilion to rank with the Lotte and Samsung buildings in this southern port city.
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| Lucky Goldstar Pavilion Yeosu Expo 2012 |
The design of the outer wall of the LG Pavilion reflects the theme of 'water'. The interior includes green furniture with plants part of chairs and sofas and was partly made by local Korean artists and children from the Yeosu orphanage.
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| Lucky Goldstar Pavilion Yeosu Expo 2012 |
The LG Pavilion also includes a digital chandelier playing Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and visual effects that capture the seasons in South Korea.
The overall theme of LG's Pavilion is "Life is Green" as eco-friendly business and water treatment are areas the company want to move in to in the near future.
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| LG Pavilion |
Lotte Pavilion Expo 2012
The Lotte Pavilion at the 2012 Expo in Yeosu is a favorite among visitors as it recreates its amusement park business with a virtual hot-air balloon ride "A Journey on a Hot-Air Balloon to a World Full of Fun" and lots of dance and music performances.
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| Lotte Pavilion |
The climate theme of the Lotte Pavilion is prevalent throughout the building and in the performances on show.
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| Lotte Pavilion |
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The Samsung Pavilion at the 2012 Expo in Yeosu is a stand-out building among many such striking buildings at the event.
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| Samsung Pavilion |
The theme of the futuristic Samsung Pavilion is "Living Creatively, Imagining Together." Built by three companies in the huge chaebol conglomerate: Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDI & Samsung Heavy Industries, the three-story pavilion covers an area of 2,700 square meters, and symbolizes a ship traveling into the future.
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| Samsung Pavilion |
Each day, 15 times a day, the Samsung Pavilion hosts a 15-minute dance, image and light show.
The spectacular building is illuminated in the evenings.
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| Samsung Pavilion |
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Hallabong Mandarin Oranges 한라봉
Jeju is famous for its production of citrus fruits and the island produces a number of varieties including the hybrid Hallabong, so-called after Mt. Halla and Gamgyul.
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| Hallabong Mandarin Oranges 한라봉 |
Hallabong are known for their sweet flavor and are more expensive than normal mandarin oranges.
Hallabong have a distinctive bump at the top and are used to make Hallabong tea and even chocolate. Jeju's varieties of citrus fruit are a popular souvenir and are exported as far as the UK. You can purchase them in boxes from roadside vendors or in Jeju's market not far from the port area.
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| Hallabong Mandarin Oranges 한라봉 |
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Hareubang Grandfather Statues
Hareubang known as "Grandfather Statues" can be seen all over Jeju Island in South Korea.
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| Hareubang Grandfather Statues |
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| The statues are carved from the local volcanic rock |
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| Grandfather and son |
Hareubang of various sizes can be purchased in souvenir stores throughout Jeju as garden ornaments, phone straps, or keyrings. Bukchon Dol Hareubang Park on Jeju has a collection of 48 Dol Hareubang and information on these curious carvings.
Black Pork Pig Jeju
"Black Pork" from the meat of black pigs is a specialty of Jeju Island off the south west coast of South Korea.
Traditionally the porkers were kept in volcanic stone pens to be slaughtered for special occasions such as weddings, births and funerals.
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| Black Pork |
Black Pork is eaten in kebabs and as a barbecue, traditionally roasted over charcoal with garlic.
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| Black Pork |
Up until the 1960s in some areas of Jeju Island the pigs were human waste disposers, with latrines emptying into their sties, as the image of a stone statue at Geumneung Stone Garden graphically shows below.
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| Statue |
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