Hallim Park
Subtropical garden built over reclaimed sand dunes, with palm avenues and a lava tube found hidden beneath them.
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This guide to Hallim Park on Jeju traces the site back fifty-five years, when a man named Song Bong-gyu bought three hundred thousand square meters of loose coastal sand that nobody thought could grow anything, and had truckload after truckload of soil brought in over it. Palms went in first, then herb beds and a greenhouse raised with help from Japanese engineers in 1985. In 1981, workers digging near the shore broke through into a lava tube nobody had ever mapped.
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