Spirited Garden

This guide to Spirited Garden in Jeju follows Seong Beom-young, a shirt maker from Seoul who bought a patch of worthless volcanic rock in 1968 despite locals' warnings, working by kerosene lamp with no water or power. It traces his decades-long fight to keep miniature trees alive on an island hit by roughly three typhoons a year, and the stone walls he built by hand to break the wind before it reached the pots. Look for how the walls curve, tucking the smallest trees into the leeward side.