Hello, people.
How are you? Thanks again for reading my blog post.
I have had some story I want to write about.
But I have been busy or lazy and put it aside on a corner of my diary.
I told you many times I had many diverse experiences thanks to
my job of a tour guide.
In this time, I had a chance to be a coordinator for promotion of Jeju island.
I couldn't find appropriate word for a 'coordinator'.
May be you can say 'location hunter' instead of 'a coordinator'
Anyway the project is sponsored by Jeju Tourism Organization and it will broadcast to 49 countries in 5 languages through Euronews channel.
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In early August I got a mail from EU-media.
It said they suggested me to help making Jeju promoting film.
Well... I don't need to hesitate to decide for that.
Immediately I think this project is really cut for me.
So I more than welcome to take the offer.
Few years ago I had helped Mikael Karakis make his art work inspired by Jeju Haenye(woman diver) and it was avreally good experience for me.
So, it was rather my pleasure to be a coordinator for his project.
And the art work became big successful.
Now it has an exhibition running over the world.
Even though it is not my own work, I am really proud of that.
So, This time, I had been looking forward to this project.
I received a phone call right after accept the proposal.
It was an Italian guy named 'Adrea' who has very strong Italian accent.
After short talking with him I recognized that he is little talkative but very humorous
And his assistant Daniel is a quiet guy but he has an excellent sense of humor.
Some times his sense of humor made people can't help bursting into laughter.
He teaches how to make a movie film in Nepal and a freelance photographer as well.
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Few days passed...
I met a girl named Park Ines who I had a talk through a phone few days ago.
She is much younger than I imagined and a beautiful woman.
It was so nice to have an assistant and I suddenly felt easy with her.
You know what?
Some times working with Korean people is more difficult than working with foreigners.
Because the ways of taking a tour between Koreans and foreigners are quite different.
Besides of that, If there are Koreans who came to take foreign clients only for treat, they probably already get stressed.
And They tend to throw a tantrum to a tour guide.
It drives a tour guide crazy.
But Park Ines is not a kind of person at all.
Rather, we became very good friends after few hours talking.
I hunched that the working to make a project would be going to be excellent.
Exchanging talking, laughing and waiting for Andrea and Daniel, We saw there were two people coming through a gate with a load of camera equipment.
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The time was almost 4pm.
It is a common sense if we want to take a good photo, we need not only good spots but also appropriate time and light.
So we had quick greeting and hit the road.
We were heading for 'Yongduam' where is closest touristic spot from the airport.
Not much special thing happened over there.
And then we went to 'SamSeongHyul' which is a shrine for mythical Jeju 3 founders.
Well, there are so many welcomers waiting for us.
They are mosquitos.
They suddenly rushed upon us like saying "We are very welcome"
This filming includes not only pictures but also sound.
When you hear the slapping sound, it is a sound slapping mosquitos.
Later, we boastfully showed spots bitten by mosquitos each other.
Where do you think is the best place for sunset?
Answering to the question two places come up to my mind.
One is Hyup Jae beach and the other one is Chagwido.
Right after filming of 'Samseonghyul' we ran down to 'Hyup Jae' beach expecting to catch a beautiful sunset.
Upon arrival at 'HyupJae' beach it already became dark.
Too shame for out of luck.
But we had a good night filming instead of sunset one.
We enjoyed lights from squid and oar fishing boats which make a Jeju unique scenary.
Next day, we went to 'Manjanggul lava tube'
Showing of my personal opinion I think 'Mangjanggul lava tube' is the only natural heritage in Jeju which differentiate Jeju island from other volcanic islands.
Even Hawaii doesn't have this much long and magnificent lava tube like 'Manjanggul lava tube'
This UNESCO natural heritage shows even vivid signs of lava flowing occurred hundred thousands years ago.
We had to finish filming before other tourists flocking to the cave.
Above all, water was kept dripping from ceiling.
Anyway we were strolling down with filming to the end of the tube and finally met a lava column known as the biggest one in the world.
They said they got a good shot.
Actually 'Sepjikoji' was not on the list.
But I thought if there is no 'Sepjikoji' on the Jeju promotion film, it wouldn't be a good work because the place is considered one of the best scenic places in Jeju island.
They willingly agreed with my opinion and we headed to 'Sepjikoji'.
However, 'Sepjikoji' is one of most controversial places in Jeju island at the moment.
Because a lot of touristic resort buildings are building on the beautiful place.
The more touristic resort buildings they build, the more 'Sepjikoji' got sick.
News papers say lots of financial investment are going on this area.
Many people complain there is a dull and stupid looking building blocking the view of 'Seongsan ilchulbong' but the company insists that the building was built by very famous architect.
Well, who cares? I don't care who built the stupid building.
The point is that people are irritated by the building.
I am sure if it keeps going on, 'Sepjikoji' will be a resort complex in 5 years.
We must take measures before not too late.
She looks very elated.
As you see the picture, she is a really happy girl and always cheerful
But I felt sorry to hear that it was the last day of her staying.
I think it is a very dynamic scene. ‘having nature into a camera'
When I finished explaining about Jeju horse, they started interested in Jeju horses.
And we were looking for horses eagerly.
Suddenly a horse grazing on a field came to Daniel and it seems to be taken picture of.
Well, he seems to make friends with a horse.
I hope he gets a good shot of it.
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The duration was almost a week.
We had more episodes besides of this one. But I should cut the story now.
The other episodes continued in a next one.
