Rediscovering Hallasan: Jeju Island's��s Traditional Landscapes of Sincerity, Mysticism and Adventure
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Author�s Preface: On August 2, 2006, the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) Executive Committee confirmed that in the summer of 2008 (August 26-28, 2008) a conference of scholars, experts and activists who study issues and problems concerning small islands would convene on Jeju Island, South Korea. The conference title, reflecting its themes, was "The 2008 Islands of the World X: Globalizing Islands; Sustainable Culture, Peace, and Resources." Organizers of the conference anticipated there would be 600 delegates attending, including 200 participants. In 2007 I contacted representatives of the organizing committee and prominent cosponsors on the Island (Dr. Ko Changhoon and Dr. Kwon Sangcheol from Jeju National University) with a proposal to produce a participant�s guidebook tentatively titled "Rediscovering Hallasan, Jeju Island�s Traditional Landscapes of Sincerity, Mysticism and Adventure: A Special Publication to Celebrate the 2008 Islands of the World X (ISISA) Conference." This work would be a compilation of several of my revised and updated prior publications about Jeju Island�s traditional culture and history, with emphasis on the changing cultural landscape. I suggested that the conference organizers publish both online and hardcopy versions, with the online version to appear on the ISISA website beginning several months prior to the conference. My proposal was accepted. I prepared this document and sent the electronic files to Dr Ko Changhoon in the Fall of 2007. The manuscript was uploaded onto the ISISA website as a link to a remote server in the late Spring of 2008, here it served its purposes prior to and during the conference and remained accessible until late 2008, at which time it disappeared from the Internet. The hardcopy was never published. Since the link to my "participants' guidebook" was no longer accessible or retrievable online after December, 2008, I have reconstituted my original files as a new document and intend to render the 2008 manuscript again online as a public service, retaining the title "Rediscovering Hallasan: Jeju Island�s Traditional Landscapes of Sincerity, Mysticism and Adventure." David J. Nemeth, July 2012
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Jeju Island (Korea) – History and Geography, geography, Jeju Island (Korea) – Civilization, Jeju Island (Korea) – Folk Life and Culture