Alex Matheson
6 min readApr 19, 2023

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Korea’s Secret Retreat

It isn’t an international ‘mecca’ for tourists, in fact it is barely known. Nevertheless it has been the tourist destination at one end of the busiest air route in the world.

While little known outside of Korea where it has been revered for decades as a honeymoon destination, long before most Koreans had enough money to become tourists.

Jeju island and province is a one-hour flight from Seoul-Inchon, the second largest city in the world. At 80 km. off the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, it is a four-hour ferry ride to the volcanic Mt. Halla-dominated-island. Now it is…

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Alex Matheson

First decade of the century to Africa hiking, second to Asia cycling.