Jeolmul

This guide to Jeolmul Recreation Forest in Jeju opens with an unexpected count: most of the towering cedar around you was planted by hand, not grown wild. It traces the forest's older namesake, a spring beside a long-gone temple whose water never failed even in the island's worst droughts, and the belief that it eased aching joints. You'll hear about the decades of planting behind today's canopy, laid down to hold the mountain's soil long before anyone called this a park. Breathe in the cedar scent as you walk the wooden deck.