Prologue - A Path Dedicated to You Who Are Weary and Tired

The path we want to walk - Heo Young-seon

Part 1: In Search of the Pathless Road

The Cross Sisters on the Seogwipo Camino
A reporter's older sister holds the hand of her gangster brother.
Jeju's first and last villages meet
Jungseop must have walked this path too
I knelt in that sea
Living Goddesses, the Path of the Haenyeo
Connect the broken paths and call out the lost paths.
Lying on the rocks, wrapped in the skirt of the universe

Part 2: Gilchi, Falling in Love with Walking

Tears shed on Biyangdo Island
Now I can see the wildflowers beneath my feet
Embrace the Camino de Santiago
Four seasons from Gwanghwamun
A fool would go that far on a long journey?

Part 3 People I Met in Santiago

The Black Knight I Met in the Pyrenees
A man with night blindness and a woman without a flashlight
Pancakes and Paulo Coelho
Pilgrims asking for directions on the road
Luxury in poverty, freedom in the rain
“Make your own Camino”
Only those who leave reach their destination.

Part 4: Walking Slowly Makes You Happy

Let's become a 'Gansedari' in Ole
Ole-kun's secret code, the blue arrow
Even a bare-faced witch needs to wash her face
The road is a shelter for my soul
Why are women crazy about Ole?
Children grow up walking.
Ole, open the path of the heart
The end of the Olle trip is at the traditional market.

Part 5 Paradise… …The People Who Live There

Living in Seogwipo, the 'Slow City'
Two women at 587 Seogwi-dong Maeil Market
Two men who raised and saved people
Two painters who returned to Jeju
Sometimes like music, sometimes like a password
A simple feast prepared by the sea and land
The island created by the goddess, the island where the goddess lives
If you miss the wind, come to Jeju.
Even beautiful things sometimes turn into tears
Seeing an island from an island

Epilogue - Walking to Musan, Father's Land

A path dedicated to you who are pressed for time, overwhelmed by work, exhausted and hurt
Badang Olle Sky Olle Jeju Olle Trail

Seo Myeong-suk, the woman who made roads in Jeju
Former editor-in-chief of Sisa Journal, former editor-in-chief of OhmyNews, she creates the most beautiful and peaceful Jeju Olle Trail in the world!

Seo Myung-sook, who is considered a member of the first generation of political reporters and served as the first female editor-in-chief of a weekly magazine.
She, who had a reputation for her sharp and sharp political columns, suddenly gave up her 23-year career as a journalist and embarked on a walking trip.
And as I complete the Camino de Santiago, I am reminded of my hometown, Jeju.
I realized that I could create a more beautiful and peaceful path in Jeju than the Camino de Santiago, and I pledged to myself, “I will create my own path.”
After returning to Korea, she founded the non-profit organization 'Jeju Olle' and began developing walking trails, currently developing eight courses totaling 105 kilometers.

『Play, Rest, Walk, Jeju Walking Tour』 is a story about the dreams and passion of Seo Myeong-suk, the ‘woman who makes roads in Jeju.’
Along with the story of her addiction to walking and the people she met on the Camino de Santiago, the story of how the Jeju Olle Trail was created, filled with laughter and tears, and the stories of the wonderful Jeju people who live along the Olle Trail and the Olle hikers who visit, unfold in a way that is sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking.

“Since the opening of Olle Course 1 on September 8th of last year, the number of Olle hikers has increased day by day with each course that has been opened.
They came looking for Ole once, twice, three times, over and over again.
Some people come down for a day trip, others for two nights and three days, and then three nights and four days, and recently, there are even people who come for a week.
Is it because it is a beautiful road that is easy, safe, and spacious?
In particular, women came to Ole alone, in pairs, in groups, or holding their children's hands.
They speak in unison.
“I’m happy that I have Ole.”
Every time I hear these words, I feel happy too.

I hope that as more people read this book, they will realize that the scenery they see through the car window as they whizz by, the famous tourist attractions, golf courses, and museums, are not all there is to Jeju.
I hope to see the inner workings of Jeju by walking the Olle Trail myself.
So, may your wounded heart be healed through Ole, may you escape from the steep pace for a moment, may you become a 'liver bridge' from being a workaholic, even if only for a moment.”
_ From the prologue, 'This is a path dedicated to you who are tired and worn out'

* Olle: Jeju dialect meaning 'a narrow alley in front of a house that leads to a wide alley in the neighborhood'
* Gansedari: Jeju dialect meaning 'slow and lazy person'

Walk into the heart of Jeju that you can never see on a car trip!

“The Jeju you knew is not the real Jeju!”
Jeju's hidden, beautiful roads that you can never see on a quick car tour.
Seo Myeong-suk and the Olle hikers devoted themselves to developing the course to show the inner workings of Jeju.
Sometimes, with the help of Marines, they move stones by hand to smooth out the rough rocky paths, and sometimes, they restore paths that had disappeared for over 30 years due to human absence.
They build stairs by tamping the dirt with their hands, one step at a time, to climb steep hills, and they also build stone bridges by moving stones one by one to connect streams.
The 27 Jeju Olle courses, created with all this passion and sweat, are humane paths where you can feel Jeju's oreums and sea, trees and wildflowers, sky and wind with your whole body, paths where you can heal your tired body and mind while walking leisurely.

The unanimous opinion of those who have walked it!
“It is a blessing to be able to walk this path!”

1.
The road that opinion leaders are excited about!

Jeju Olle Trail is special.
As you slowly walk through Jeju's natural beauty, you will find yourself recharging your body and mind with energy before you know it.
The Jeju Olle Trail is the path that allows you to most clearly experience the amazing effects of walking.
This is also why opinion leaders, who suffer from high stress and excessive workload, are the first to be attracted to the Jeju Olle Trail.

2.
The road that women dream of!

Jeju Olle Trail is also a women's trail.
Nine times out of ten, those who come to Jeju Olle individually are women.
Alone, with friends, with neighbors, with classmates, with church members.
Women seek out Ole in various combinations.
Occupations and age groups also vary greatly.
From a freshman college student, to a working woman in her thirties, a housewife in her forties or fifties, a female painter in her fifties, and a principal in her seventies.
Many women seek out Jeju Olle, the women's path.

3.
A path for mothers and children to walk together, a path for couples and lovers to open their hearts!

My heart opens up on the Jeju Olle Trail.
Because nature has the power to open each other's hearts.
Especially on the pure, absolute, warm and spacious Jeju Olle Trail.
The Jeju Olle Trail is a path where mothers and children can walk together and open their hearts, and where couples and lovers can walk together and have deep conversations.
There is no need to go far away.
Let's walk Olle holding hands between mother and daughter, between father and son, between father and daughter, between lovers, between married couples.
Hearts open and love deepens.

Greenpeace in Busan

My son, who is 18 years old, tells his mother what his heart tells him.
“Mom… you’re so beautiful,”
“Huh? Ugh… Yeah.
That's right.
But what is beauty?”
“Ah… that’s it, it’s pretty and there are five of them!”

Romance between a couple in their mid-fifties

A senior couple in their mid-fifties, who are acquaintances of the author, walked the Olle Trail for two nights and three days last fall.
The wife is a public relations director at a large corporation, and the husband is a professor at a prestigious university in Seoul.
They are both busy professionals with no time to breathe.
The couple cheered as soon as they saw Ole, and they looked at the wildflowers like childhood friends, and dipped their feet in the waves, all the while laughing.
On the first day, they looked like a couple in their fifties, neither more nor less, but on the day they left, they looked like a late newlywed couple in their late thirties.
The author teased them for making hoods out of handkerchiefs.
“Senior, I need to donate a lot of money to Ole.
“They both look twenty years younger, so if you add up the cost of their plastic surgery and botox, it’ll easily be in the hundreds of millions.”

It's not too late to go to that island after reading this.

『Nolmeong Resting Geuleumeong Jeju Walking Tour』 is different from existing travel books that travel to destinations and organize impressions as a third party.
This is a record of a woman's passion for creating a new travel format called 'Jeju Walking Tour' by making her own path in Jeju, and a vivid travel book about how to travel Jeju most beautifully on foot.

Part 1, 'In Search of the Pathless Path', presents the fascinating story of the process and reasons behind the construction of Jeju Olle Courses 1 through 6.
In addition, the characteristics and beauty of each Jeju Olle course are vividly displayed with abundant photos.

Part 2, 'Gilchi, Falling in Love with Walking', tells the story of how the author, who has lived as a fierce workaholic in the Gwanghwamun media industry for over 20 years, fell in love with 'walking'.

Part 3, 'People I Met in Santiago', tells the story of the author, fascinated by walking, as he attempts to complete the Camino de Santiago, the dream of every hiker.
The people met on the Camino de Santiago, the wounds of the heart healed and purified along the way, and the process by which the dream of the Jeju Olle Trail was planted, whether by chance or fate, are all depicted in captivating writing.

Part 4 'Walking Slowly Makes You Happy' is the story of the Olle guide who created the Jeju Olle Trail and the Olle hikers who walk the Olle Trail.
From the meaning of the Jeju Olle spirit, the "Gansedari spirit," and the story of the blue arrow Olle sign, to people whose lives were changed by walking the Olle trail, the reason why women are crazy about Olle, children growing up on the trail, and even couples and lovers walking the Olle trail, the stories of various people who have walked the Olle trail unfold in a pleasant and moving way.
Part 5 'Paradise... ...The People Who Live There' is a story about the people of Seogwipo and Jeju.
As you read the richly unfolding stories of Jeju, including the stories of Jeju men and women, Jeju's myths, the beauty of the Jeju language, Jeju's winds and flowers, and even Udo and Marado, you will find yourself deepening your love for Jeju.
And with such a deepened heart, you will realize that Jeju, which you experience with your own two feet, is a completely different Jeju from the Jeju you have previously driven around.