Cheju Island is a Korean resort destination known traditionally for its remarkable women divers, who harvest seaweed and shellfish with little more than a knife and no breathing apparatis. This ...

”These phallic fellows with funny smiles”–as one guidebook called them –abound here to a disquieting extent. Their bug-eyes peer from behind oleander bushes. Their bulbous noses poke from wooden ...

It’s a honeymooner’s Niagara, but without the falls. It’s a vacationer’s Oahu, but without the polyester-clad tourists from Peoria. On Cheju Do, South Korea’s largest island, the acetate- swaddled ...

ON PYONG VILLAGE, South Korea — On a spit of volcanic rock that thrusts into an ocean once rich with abalone, octopus and sea urchin, Halmoni rocks back on her 72-year-old heels and crooks her head at ...

For many years South Koreans have sought an escape from the victimization of the Korean War, and the whirl of economic development that is sweeping the country. Desiring to find a place to step back ...

The Port of Inchon and Cheju Korea are planning to offer a new package tour to include a ferryboat cruise and a hiking tour of Halla Mountain in Cheju Island. The passenger ship service will depart ...

Sex Education in Korea A Phallus Garden in "Love Land" There's a persistent prejudice against the Japanese, the Koreans and other Asians -- that they're prudish and repressed. But go to "Love Land" on ...

On Korea’s mainland the struggle between freedom and Communism is grinding on as fiercely as anywhere on earth. But only 50 miles across the Yellow Sea, on the do (island) of Cheju, the older and no ...

Kim Wan Mae is 95 years old, but she hasn't forgotten a tragic episode in her past--and South Korea's. In the thick dialect of Cheju, an island 85 kilometers south of the Korean mainland where she ...

The first international folk mask festival will be held in Cheju island during the fall. The city of Cheju nnounced on May 26 that it would hold the first Cheju International Folk Mask Festival from ...