Jeju Island in Korea!, '제주도'

Jejudo culture looks very simple compared to the Korean peninsula and many other nations. I think this may be due to the ancestors of today’s inhabitants learning to live in harmony with nature like many other past generations of other lands. Jejudo is the largest island in Korea and is located in the southwest sea off the Korean peninsula. Jejudo was made of volcanic activity. So we can see basalt commonly. In the center of this island, there is Halla mountain(한라산) which is an extinct volcano(사화산), 1950m high and there are about 360 smaller cones named "Orum" (오름)that were made of volcanic activity around the island. Many Korean people visit Jeju Orum to see the view. About 1,000 ago, Jejudo was sometimes called Sam-Dado(삼다도) which means three kinds of large things were found in this island. The three things are wind, women and rocks. So Sam(삼) means 3, Da(다) means many and Do(도) means an Island but the sound of do is different from English word do. Now let me introduce the Songup folk village(성읍민속마을) in Jejudo. The Songup folk village is famous for reproducing the old daily life of Jejudo. Now, Songup folk village is designated as the No.188 of the important Folk Exhibition. Jeju people had cleared the land covered with so many stones for the farms. They used the stones to make ports and build houses and walls instead of throwing away the stones. Every year, some typhoons(태풍) passed by or struck the Korean peninsula(한반도). So my ancestors lived in low houses to reduce damage from the typhoons. Too much wind meant tough lives for Jeju people. Do you see Jeju traditional houses(제주 전통 초가집)? Look at the roofs! They were low and covered with straw ropes to reduce typhoon damage because Jejudo was located in an area of many typhoons. The Living Environment of Jejudo was so hard that women had to work with men. Most of all, lots of men died during fishing in the sea. So Jejudo had a preponderance of women members. But now Samdado past tragedies are only an old story. Modern products have improved the quality of Jeju lives compare to the past. But there are still too many stones and too much wind in the island of Jejudo.