Jonghoun Lee
Jann Jansen-James
English 122
24 September 2014
Travel to Jeju Island Many people enjoy traveling when they have a long break. Through traveling, which is an escape from their repeated daily boring life, people can have a fresh experience and get energy to stand their humdrum life, like we take a ten minutes break time after we study for one hour. I also love going on a trip. Of all the trips I had been on, my most memorable journey was to the Jeju Island with my family. Even though the island was a small area, such as millet, in the world, the family vacation showed me unforgettable beauty and gave me precious memory, such as landscape and coastline road. My unforgettable memory began as soon as I arrived at Jeju Island. I took an airplane to visit Jeju Island from Incheon airport. After about one and a half hour, I arrived at the island. The Jeju airport was not particularly different, but when my family went to out to reserve a rent car, we could not hide our surprised looks. As soon as we stood at the outside of the island, I could not forget the feeling of the cool wind, like a cold sprite in refrigerator, rushing through my whole body, the sunshine that caressed me, and the salted air smell which pleasantly irritate my nose. Also, after we got the rent car, driving on route gave me a strong impression, because there were tall trees like giant and straighten road like airplane runway. It made me recall Guam Island which is a famous tourist attraction in the United States. The emotion was the same as when I try to eat a new food which I had not eaten before, because it was totally different environment from my sweet house. My sweet house was surrounded by concrete jungle. Another forgettable memory was the maze forest. During the first day, my family visited a maze forest. I had small expectations about the forest before I visited the maze forest, because I did not think that there could be a huge maze forest in such a small island the size of a coin. I guess it was a small size for a maze forest. My thought was not changed until we purchased tickets to enter the forest at totter ticket office. However, I was absolutely wrong. There were huge size maze forest castles instead of small ones. I felt shocked like someone hit my head by heavy hammer. Perhaps it was because I presumed the forest would be unattractive and predictable, like seeing an ending to a film beforehand, but seeing the forest was like observing the subjects of the film acting out scenes of their alluring memories. The other forgettable memory on the island was the Jeju coastline road. We drove through the road with a nice convertible car like a bald eagle. The road encircled the whole circumference of the island, like a mother enfolding her newborn baby. While we were riding the car, we had to stop driving because there were awesome landscapes. The blood color Sun greeted us across the boundless blue light’s ocean and the Dol haerubang made by special rock, which born from lava of Jeju Island, stared my family with scary smile. We could not experience this kind of unusual view in the any other place. There are many islands in the world, and each island have their own beauty, but I think Jeju Island is the most beautiful island in the world. The reason is that the island holds a different sapidity due to traditional Korean culture and beauties, which are melted evenly throughout the whole island. I always look forward to visiting the Jeju Island again in the close future.