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Picture of the Day: Strange Lights Over Jeju

GIKorea | October 28, 2022

**Light pillars in the sky**
Columns of light appear in the sky over the southern island of Jeju on Oct. 26, 2022. According to meteorologists, the phenomenon occurs when high-level clouds reflect light from the lamps of fishing boats on the water. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Haenyeo Festival

GIKorea | September 28, 2022

**Fete on Korean women divers**
A group of “haenyeo,” female divers who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without breathing equipment, marches in a parade as part of an event to mark the 15th Jeju Haenyeo Festival in the city of Jeju on South Korea’s largest island of the same name on Sept. 24, 2022. The two-day event kicked off the same day following a three-year hiatus due to a typhoon and the coronavirus pandemic. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Flooded Jeju Road

GIKorea | September 6, 2022

**Flooded Jeju road amid typhoon**
Water pours out from a manhole cover in a street on Jeju Island as Typhoon Hinnamnor moves northward toward South Korea on Sept. 4, 2022. (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: Jeju’s Hamdeok Beach

GIKorea | August 22, 2022

**Swimming at a beach**
Vacationers enjoy swimming under a cloudy sky at Hamdeok Beach on the southern resort island of Jeju on Aug. 20, 2022. (Yonhap)

55 Thai Tourists Disappear on Jeju Island

GIKorea | August 8, 2022

There must be enough work for illegal immigrants on Jeju Island for 55 people from Thailand to disappear like this:

The whereabouts of 55 out of 280 Thai tourists who entered South Korea earlier this week through the airport on the southern island of Jeju are unknown, immigration officials said Sunday.
Out of 697 Thai nationals who arrived at the Jeju International Airport from Bangkok through a direct Jeju Airlines flight between Tuesday and Friday, 417 were denied entry and were flown home, according to the Jeju Immigration Service.
Of the other 280 people who have entered the country for a three-day tourism program, 55 have broken away from their tour groups and disappeared, officials said. The immigration office said it was trying to figure out where they went.
Officials said that many of the Thai tourists chose to enter South Korea through Jeju as they have a record of being denied entry through other airports, including the country’s main gateway, Incheon International Airport.
Yonhap

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Tweet of the Day: Yoon to Attend Jeju Memorial

GIKorea | April 4, 2022

Yoon to attend Jeju 4.3 memorial, a first for conserv prez/prez-elect. Good for him. A small-scale armed Communist uprising led to rampant massacre of civilians. Among 30,000+ civs killedd, 800+ were children under age 10. SK must remember & honor victims. https://t.co/dWScdsTRHX
— Sung-Yoon Lee (@SungYoonLee1) April 1, 2022