Samseonghyeol

This guide to Samseonghyeol in Jeju opens with three hunters, said to be Go, Yang and Bu, watching a wooden box drift ashore, and the chronicles' account of what they find when they open it. It traces how scholars now read that legend as an allegory for this island's shift from hunting to farming, and the linguistic clues linking its founders to a mainland kingdom over two thousand years old. Stand at the rim of the three holes and judge for yourself a claim locals still make about them.