Gimnyeong Maze Park
Hedge maze grown from over a thousand cypress saplings, home to a free-roaming colony of resident cats.
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This guide to Gimnyeong Maze Park in Jeju follows Frederic Dustin, an American teacher at Jeju National University who traded maze sketches by mail with British designer Adrian Fisher before planting more than a thousand cypress saplings in 1987. It traces the decade the hedges took to grow head-high, the shapes worked into them from above, and how a colony of stray cats moved into the undergrowth along the way. Listen for how many of today's cats have never known the park without the maze around them.
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