Byeoldobong

This guide to Byeoldobong on Jeju's coast follows one of the island's roughly 368 satellite volcanoes, a soft cone of ash and lava that the occupying Japanese army riddled with about ten tunnels near the end of the Second World War, bracing for an Allied landing that never came. You'll hear how those empty tunnels sit alongside older, darker stories from the hill's northern cliff, known locally as Suicide Rock, and the sea cave and rock formation at its foot. The guide follows how one small hill ended up carrying three unrelated histories at once.