• Cultural Content Company 'Story AHN', CEO An Hyunmi
    Jul 26 2024

    An Hyunmi has worked as a screenwriter for over 30 years, creating various programs and expanding her role to include documentary writing and directing. She has taught screenplay writing in the Department of Broadcasting and Visual Arts at Halla University and currently serves as an adjunct professor. In 2022, she received the Gender Equality Cultural Content Award for her work, , which explores the life stories of women in Jeju. Recently, she published , a collection of life stories and folklore shared by Jeju's haenyeo (female divers). Through diverse mediums such as video, books, and audio, she diligently archives the history and culture of Jeju Island.

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    28 mins
  • GreenGrim Co., Ltd. CEO, Lee Sia
    Jul 19 2024

    Lee Sia is the mother of Green and Grim and the CEO of the eco-friendly resource circulation platform company, GreenGrim. From her childhood to the present, she has lived every moment with excitement and passion. Born and raised in Jeju as the youngest of four sisters, she grew up under the influence of her mother, who has been running a flower shop for 50 years. She has always been interested in life forms such as flowers and trees. Next to her mother's flower shop is a café run by her sister, which led her to contemplate the waste issues from the many cafés that open and close. As a result, she discovered PLA, a biodegradable plastic alternative to petroleum-based plastics, and even flew to Shanghai, China, while she was pregnant, driven by the urgency that she had to pursue this mission now or never. A week after her visit, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, and the world began to focus on the problems of disposable products. With her foresight, GreenGrim was founded at the perfect time and has since been transforming café culture across Jeju and Korea.

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    27 mins
  • IB Pyoseon High School Human Rights Club Ikki, ‘Choi Jiseul, Eom Joohyun, Kim Junghun, Kim Minseok’
    Jul 12 2024

    Jiseul, a founding member and a 3rd-year student, along with Joohyun, a 3rd-year student in her second year of participation, and Junghun, a 1st-year student, are practicing rights-based sharing through the Human Rights Club Ikki. Together with social worker Mr. Kim Minseok from the Dongbu Social Welfare Center as their teacher, the Human Rights Club Ikki is exploring ways to make beaches more accessible and usable for people with mobility challenges through a program supported by a company in 2024. In addition, they are working on introducing Robo Wheelchairs for the elderly in the Pyoseon area and promoting proper awareness for the mobility-challenged. Witnessing the gradual changes in their surroundings and society through these activities, Jiseul has been inspired to become an energy engineer to address the climate crisis, while Joohyun feels that her perspective on the world has broadened. The youngest member, Junghun, feels pride and self-esteem from being able to help others with his abilities. The Human Rights Club Ikki comprises around ten students from Pyoseon High School, who are striving to create a better world, starting from their local area and extending across South Korea.

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    31 mins
  • Vegrow Founder, Park Ji-hyo
    Jul 5 2024

    Park Ji-hyo runs a vegan bakery called Vegrow in the seaside village of Seongdal-ri, Jeju City. She lives with her large dog and her husband, and also tends a community garden with ten friends. Living in Jeju, she discovered how delicious seasonal produce can be. Rather than baking the same bread every day, she creates bread with seasonal ingredients and organizes a "farm-to-table" program to connect farmers with consumers. She is incredibly diligent when facing new tasks but never misses out on enjoying the pleasures of Jeju's four seasons.

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    25 mins
  • Romi Music House Representatives: Seok Gilsu, Gong Hyeonji, Ha Seokbeom, and Lee Yeoreum
    Jun 28 2024

    Gilsu and Seokbeom have been close friends since high school, where they were both soccer players. After grueling training sessions, they found solace in listening to music together through shared earphones. After graduating and leading separate lives, the two decided to join forces with their wives, Hyeonji and Yeoreum, to create their own paradise in Jeju. This paradise is a self-service LP cafe called Romi Music House, where visitors can select and listen to LPs themselves. On clear days, they hold a special event called "Blackout Time," where they turn off all the lights after sunset and play music. They also plan fun and fresh pop-up stores with other shops. Romi Music House is Jeju's first solo LP cafe and the first in the country to host "Blackout Time". In less than six months since its opening, it has quickly gained a reputation as a hot spot.

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    24 mins
  • Representative of 'Sound of Jeju', Moon Hyojin (Part. 2)
    Jun 21 2024

    Born and raised in Jeju Island, Moon Hyojin spent her childhood playing the piano in a two-story house with views of Hallasan Mountain to the right and the sea to the left. Her teenage years were marked by a perception of Jeju as a confined space, but she grew into adulthood studying piano and music in Melbourne, Australia, and Seoul. Now back in her hometown, she works to document the disappearing aspects of Jeju. She is not only active as a pianist, composer, performance planner, reporter, and writer, but also transcends the boundaries of art through projects like music exhibitions, Music Bookmarks, and Sound Map.

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    29 mins
  • Representative of 'Sound of Jeju', Moon Hyojin
    Jun 14 2024

    Born and raised in Jeju Island, Moon Hyojin spent her childhood playing the piano in a two-story house with views of Hallasan Mountain to the right and the sea to the left. Her teenage years were marked by a perception of Jeju as a confined space, but she grew into adulthood studying piano and music in Melbourne, Australia, and Seoul. Now back in her hometown, she works to document the disappearing aspects of Jeju. She is not only active as a pianist, composer, performance planner, reporter, and writer, but also transcends the boundaries of art through projects like music exhibitions, Music Bookmarks, and Sound Map.

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    29 mins
  • Dallang Jeju, Representative Lee Seung-jin
    Jun 7 2024

    It has been eight years since she came to Jeju on a whim to help her sister. For the first year, she spent her time solely on the guesthouse, household chores, and taking care of the children, feeling depressed and lonely. Then, following her sister’s suggestion that the pretty seashells on the nearby Hadori Beach might provide a clue to her life, she began taking walks on the beach and realized the beauty that nature offered. Picking up seashells gave her hope that she could create something, and she reinvented herself as the "Sold-Out Queen" at the famous flea market held at Sehwa Port, leading to the start of her own accessory shop, "Dallang Jeju." She is also active as a member of the organizing committee for the village-led Momo Flea Market and works as a professional environmental instructor specializing in climate change in Jeju.

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    28 mins