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Her name is Mary Rachel who is from Singapore. As long as I remember she was one of my clients 4 years ago. And then few months ago I got a mail from her. U
pon getting a mail from her I was little surprised  because I could hardly remember who she is. Well, Then recalling all the clients I had then, I can vaguely remember them because they were quite loud women group. Anyway I was glad to hear from her. Thanks for remembering me. 

​The mail says that she wants to visit to Jeju island with her friends because she missed spring in Jeju that was so beautiful that time. Well...Spring of Jeju island? Yes, Cherry blossoms and yellow flowers are harmonized in spring time in Jeju island, I prefer fall though. Anyway blossoming of all kind of flowers is one of the quality for visitors at Jeju. 

They finally arrived in Jeju and started a tour. Upon arriving of them, I hunched that they are crazy about taking photos. Meeting diverse people from all over the world makes me good opportunities to exchange the knowledge of each countries. According to their saying Singapore was parted from Malaysia in 1965 and started from a poor fishery village and has become a well off metropolitan country. I had talked a lot about politics, economy, and cultures. We had very interesting conversation while North and South Koreas are trying to reconcile. 

During a conversation one thins I got impressed that they don't mind even though their country is a dictatorship. Well, as long as they have enough freedom, they seem not care about their politics much. I don't know if it's a good sign or not. However, there are different things between Korea and Singapore. In Korea General Park had led the country with a gun meanwhile Lee Quan Yu a leader of Singapore had led the country with a broom. Both countries have achieved economical development but the evaluation of each leaders are different from their own people. 

Anyway, my clients love flowers in Jeju island. I didn't realized flowers in Jeju are that much beautiful, so pretty even to me. There was a photographer named Keo Mason who is an excellent photo maker. Later she sent me some photos which are like magic work. During 4 days we had visited most of good places as well as my hidden places. They endlessly pressed a camera shutter such as they likely to put all scenery of Jeju island in their camera.

As I am very interested in South Asian culture these day I learn lot of things from my clients. That is one of the merits in my job as a tour guide. And I like to have a tour with people who love taking pictures because they seem to know how to see beauty of things.   




(Church of sky on the reflexion of water)
I think it's very encouraging to see the pattern of Jeju tour is changing. So far people have thought that Jeju island is just normal honeymoon destination. However, people start being interested in diverse tour program. So, if you try to find to have meaningful tour in Jeju island, you can have many things to enjoy and rich your life. 
People specifically looking or Eco tourism, Dark tourism, or Architecture tourism tend to come to Jeju island. last year I had Begium people for Architecture tour and this year is Danishes. 
We visited Daum space 1, Sky church, Glass house, and Genious Loci. Most of them are works of Anto dadao and Itami Jun. I feel little shame for that. Because there are many works by Korean architectures'
Personally I prefer domestic arts which contains traits of Jeju island. If I made an Itinerary I would list Gwandeokjung which is symbolic building of Jeju, Castle of Shell which is one of first modern building in Seokwipo, and Teshipon which is practical house in Jeju in 1960s. etc.
My intention is to show Jeju buildings to my clients, not just famous foreign artists's work. Well, those building by famous foreign artists's works are worth visiting though. 
Anyway, Thanks to working with architectures my level of appreciation of art seems to be improved. 




















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(Seongsan Ilchulbong in a frame in Genious Loci)








(The character of Genious Loci is expose concreat and straight line with dim light)








(Sky church, or it is called Ark church because it looks an ark)








(Bonte museum, another Ando dadao's work)









(Danish architects visited in jeju)