Bijarim Forest

This guide to Bijarim Forest on Jeju listens for the crack of a baduk stone against nutmeg yew wood as it walks the largest old-growth forest of a single tree species anywhere, roughly twenty-eight hundred trees planted five to eight centuries ago. It follows why carvers still prize this timber over almost anywhere but Japan, and leads you to the forest's own giant, a fourteen-meter torreya over eight hundred years old. Press a palm to the seam where two trunks fuse into the forest's love tree and make a wish.