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“After I lived in Korea, I went all the best way to Haenam Ttangkkeut Village and thought I had visited every little thing there was to see. However there was an island additional away.”
Lee Da-do, a French professor within the Division of French Language and Tradition at Sookmyung Ladies’s College, who emceed the ‘2024 Shammak Artwork Competition’, a Korean-French cultural trade occasion held on Bigeum Island, Shinan-gun, Jeollanam-do on the eleventh, expressed his impressions of visiting this island for the primary time. Shinan-gun is made up of 1,025 islands, together with 73 inhabited islands and 952 uninhabited islands, and is named the ‘1004 Islands of Angels.’ Every of the islands scattered within the sea was a present from an angel, and was typically a website of worldwide trade. A pageant commemorating the cultural trade between Korea and France was additionally held on Bigeum Island, the place quite a few ships drifted and reached previously.
Bigeumdo, an island the place birds soar
Jeolhae Island (絕海孤島). When considered from land, the island seems to be floating alone within the sea. Nevertheless, from the attitude of a foreigner coming to Korea throughout the ocean, the island is the primary land they encounter and a logo of hope. Within the days earlier than airplanes, the island was a middle of worldwide maritime trade, assembly strangers who got here by boat.
Within the ninth century, throughout the Unified Silla Dynasty, Jang Bogo dominated Northeast Asian maritime commerce by way of Cheonghaejin, and treasure ships that traveled between China and Japan at Byeokran Island in Gaeseong, a global commerce port throughout the Goryeo Dynasty, ran aground numerous instances within the waters off Shinan. Moon Solar-deuk, a skate vendor in Shinan throughout the Joseon Dynasty, encountered a storm and drifted by way of Okinawa (Ryukyu) and the Philippines (Yeosong), earlier than returning to his hometown by way of China after three years. Jeong Yak-jeon, who was in exile on Heuksan Island, compiled Moon Solar-deuk’s useful data of his abroad visits and left them in a guide known as ‘Pyohaesimal’.
About an hour by automotive from Mokpo KTX Station in Jeollanam-do. After crossing Cheonsa Bridge, which consists of a suspension bridge and a cable-stayed bridge, I arrived on the Namgang dock in Amtaedo. From right here, you may take the ferry and land at Gasan Port in Bigeum Island after 50 minutes. A big chook statue welcomes you. Bigeumdo (飛禽島) seems to be like a big chook with its wings broad open when considered from the sky, so it was constructed as a sculpture symbolizing the island.
On Bigeum Island, the place the best salt and spinach produced in an enormous salt farm are native specialties, inexperienced barley, which was ripening nowadays, was fluttering within the wind. Your complete island of Bigeumdo Island is sort of flat, however within the southwest, Geumsan Mountain (226m) and Seonwangsan Mountain (255m), which appear to be a number of rock peaks of Seoraksan Mountain, rise tall.
There are numerous lovely seashores on Bigeumdo Island, however the perfect place to take photos is ‘Coronary heart Seaside (Hanunum)’, which will be seen from the highest of Seonwangsan Mountain. This seaside, the place the shoreline clearly seems to be like a coronary heart, is a well-liked spot for lovers to whisper their love and take pictures. The unique title, Hanunum, means the place the place the Hanibaram (west wind) comes over. The heartbreaking love story of ‘Noomi’ ready for ‘Hanu’ who went out fishing and by no means returned, additionally goes down as a legend.
Bigeumdo Myeongsasimni Seaside, which has a complete size of 4.2km, is as refreshing to the eyes and coronary heart as you may drive on the sandy seaside. Expectations are excessive as a result of an set up work by world-renowned British artist Antony Gormley is scheduled to be put in on this seaside. Close to Myeongsasimni Seaside, there may be the ‘Lee Sedol Baduk Memorial Corridor’, which opened in 2008. On the entrance to this place, the hometown of ninth Dan Go participant Lee Sedol, there’s a sculpture that reproduces the historic first win recorded in a match towards synthetic intelligence (AI) AlphaGo, which attracts consideration.
The assembly of champagne and makgeolli
On the eleventh, a novel pageant was held within the entrance yard of the Lee Sedol Baduk Memorial Corridor in Bigeumdo, the place folks drank French champagne and Korean makgeolli. It was the Shammak Artwork Competition commemorating the secure rescue of the crew of the French whaling fishing boat Narval, which was shipwrecked on Bigeum Island in 1851, and their return to Shanghai, China.
On the time, the Joseon Dynasty’s royal court docket shared the champagne and makgeolli served by Charles de Montigny, the French consul in Shanghai, as a token of gratitude to the Naju pastor and his celebration who introduced the choice on the Bibyeonsa assembly to ‘procure two new ships and ship the foreigners again to their hometowns.’ It was a pageant that recreated a cocktail party held collectively.
On the occasion venue, a tasting room was arrange the place you may drink consultant liquors from each nations, together with premium champagnes ‘Mumm’ and ‘Perrier Jouet’ from the French liquor firm Pernod Ricard Group, in addition to glowing makgeolli Hayansul and Haechang makgeolli. Though it was raining on today, about 700 folks attended, together with Yoan Le Talec, Cultural Affairs Officer of the French Embassy in Korea, Jerome Pinault, principal of Javier Worldwide College, Cédric Toiron, principal of Seoul French College, Professor Emmanuel Hu of the College of Paris, France, and college students from France and Shinan County, and many others., and loved the tradition of each nations. and loved the meals.
The preferred meals to go along with champagne and makgeolli that day was Shinan’s well-known ‘1004 oysters.’ Shinan’s oysters, which go finest with lemon, have captured the style buds of French individuals who keep in mind the style of oysters they’ll style in Normandy, France, and provides them a thumbs up.
Shinan Tidal Flat is a wholesome mudflat that was registered as a UNESCO World Pure Heritage Website in 2021. Particular person oysters produced within the Shinan tidal flat by way of environmentally pleasant open-air farming with none feed or remedy remedy are so flavorful that they’ve the scent of a tidal flat, identical to pure oysters. The nook the place you may style French snacks ready by the Javier Worldwide College Dad and mom Affiliation was additionally fashionable.
About 60 college students from French Worldwide College, Shinan County college students, and the orchestra got here on stage collectively and stated, ‘Oh! They left a giant impression by singing ‘Champs Elysees’, ‘Below the Avignon Bridge’, ‘Sinan Arirang’, and performing the Sogo dance. Mr. Mapo Lor, who studied overseas in France and is studying pansori on the Korean Nationwide College of Arts, acquired loud applause by singing ‘Sarangga’ from his pansori ‘Chunhyangga’ in French.
Members of the Gaetdol Theater Firm staged a play that vividly recreated the scene of reconciliation and friendship between the 2 nations following the shipwreck of the Narval ship.
The spotlight of the day was the ultimate scene the place Shinan residents and French folks shaped a big circle within the playground and performed ‘Bigeum Leaping Ganggangsullae’ collectively. College students and residents of each nations loved the that means of Ganggangsullae by holding palms, rolling and unwinding a big circle, holding it excessive like Namdaemun, and passing by way of it.
On the twelfth, an instructional convention was held on the Grand Ballroom of Ramada Resort in Jaeundo, titled ‘Bigeumdo, a sq. for Korean-French cultural and creative exchanges.’ In his subject lecture, Professor Emmanuel Hu stated, “Greater than 100 overseas ships sank or ran aground within the waters off Shinan within the late Joseon Dynasty.” He added, “Ten years after the Narval ship drifting incident, one other Western ship ran aground within the Bigeumdo space, and future analysis is required. “If it continues, we can shed extra in-depth mild on the encounter between the island of Shinan and the West,” he stated. Park Woo-ryang, mayor of Shinan County, stated, “I’m very comfortable to have the ability to open the door to direct exchanges with France, the nation of artwork, by way of the Shinan Shammak Artwork Competition,” and added, “We’ll make Bigeum Island a base for cultural and creative trade between Korean and French youth.”
Artwork Island Artwork Cruise
Shinan Islands are within the midst of attracting vacationers by way of tradition and humanities, just like the Naoshima Artwork Island Mission in Japan. We plan to function an ‘artwork cruise’ that may journey to islands the place works by world-renowned artists are put in. Initially, the work of Gormley, a consultant British set up artist, shall be put in at Myeongsasimni Seaside in Bigeum Island. Gormley used 220 tons of rebar in Gateshead, a small coal mining city in northeastern England, to erect a 20-meter-tall big metal sculpture known as ‘Angel of the North’. Because of this, Gateshead, which was once a coal mining city, is making a reputation for itself as a world-class metropolis of artwork. Gormley’s work, erected on Myeongsasimni Seaside, is formed like an individual by making rebar right into a dice like Shinan’s well-known salt crystals.
American set up artist James Turrell plans to current a piece on Nodaedo that collects sounds from Mars and Jupiter and shows them in coloration. Dochodo, well-known for its Hydrangea Competition, will function the work of world-renowned Danish set up artist Olafur Eliasson. The Eliasson Artwork Museum, formed like a hydrangea, shall be constructed within the middle of Dochodo, and the encircling space will type an ‘artwork museum of the earth’ by way of panorama agriculture in varied colours every season. Anjwado Island will function a ‘Floating Museum’ floating on the water designed by Japan’s Yukinori Yanagi.
Reporter Jeon Seung-hoon [email protected]
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