2024-06-16 15:35:54
It is a season the place it’s a disgrace to only keep within the nook of the room. Do you want an escape out of your tiring day by day life? How about taking a bus or a taxi?
Let’s go away. Take a bus carrying your life and take a taxi!
This week (June 10-14) EBS 1TV present affairs and tradition program <한국기행>‘Take a Bus and Take a Taxi’ will air in 5 episodes.
1 hour by sea from Incheon Coastal Ferry Terminal. Deokjeokdo is the furthest island from the mainland in Ongjin-gun, Incheon. Because the identify ‘Massive Water Island’ suggests, it’s an island in deep water.
There are solely two ‘taxis’ on this island. Mr. Kang Eung-seok is the primary taxi driver who has been working a taxi in Deokjeok Island for 17 years.
Though he was born in Busan, he has lived on Deokjeokdo Island for longer and calls himself a ‘Deokjeok man.’ That is why Deokjeokdo Island has a particular which means to him.
His taxi could be very ‘recognizable’ and serves because the palms and toes of village elders who return from the mainland, equivalent to escorting them dwelling. My grateful mom all the time provides me a cup of espresso as an alternative of simply sending it away.
In actual fact, Deokjeokdo Island has a particular which means to Mr. Eungseok. Having spent his navy profession on this island, he fell in love at first sight along with his spouse, who labored on the ticket sales space, and determined to grow to be an islander. Predeceased by his spouse 16 years in the past from pancreatic most cancers.
Mr. Eungseok is left alone on the island. Deokjeokdo Island is a spot of longing crammed with reminiscences of his spouse.
Mr. Eungseok needs to let others find out about the fantastic thing about the island that his spouse cherished and that he fell in love with at first sight due to her. From Neungdong Gravel Yard, which is manufactured from gravel, to Seopori Forest Bathing Space, which is a forest of 300-year-old Geumgang pines, all locations on the island are like treasures to him.
Captain Kim Nam-hoon ready a special occasion for him, who labored laborious for the island with out taking a single break day. We exit to sea far-off to catch recent rockfish collectively, and current the style of dwelling with ‘rockfish bone soup’ boiled with dried rockfish and salted shrimp, and seasonal ‘steamed monkfish’.
‘Who is aware of about my previous, which was like a coin with weak worth~♬’
Let’s take the thrilling Deokjeokdo No. 1 taxi and go away for the island the place wealthy life flows!
EBS’ ‘Korea Journey’, an area journey looking for Korea’s hidden surroundings and a wonderful time journey documentary program that permits you to really feel and convey the scent of historical past, customs, structure, and tradition, is broadcast each Monday to Friday at 9:30 PM.
Reporter Park Yu-mi Photograph = EBS Korea Journey
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2024-06-16 15:35:54