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ground and rape flowers swaying in the wind. The second most famous image may be the peculiar dolharubang Stone Grandfather, sculptures of lava and basalt rock. They look like short totem poles with stylized features bulging eyes, elongated noses and ears and serve to protect villages. A legacy of Jejudo's past are horse and cattle ranches. The horses are descendants of Mongolian warhorses raised for Korean armies, while herds of cattle today are bred for beef consumption. Jejudo is well known for its marine products: seaweed and shellfish, particularly abalone, oysters and octopus, major catches and for its graceful women divers known as haenyeo. Distinctive in their black suits and white headgear, the haenyeo are the traditional breadwinners of Jejudo households. Jejudo is the only place in Korea where something close to a true matriarchy is to be found. Not only do Jejudo's architecture, climate and family hierarchy differ from the mainland's, but its dialect and diet do, too. Islanders speak the same Korean language, but their accent is so strong that it is almost incomprehensible. Their diet is simpler with fewer side dishes and more emphasis on seafood. Because of the warmer climate, kimchi is not a part 73 _ Places
74 _ HELLO from KOREA Bulguksa Temple of the Jejudo diet. Jejudo's physical attractions are many to be sure, but perhaps it occupies a special place in Korean hearts because although it is only 60 miles away from the mainland, it really is a world apart. Gyeongju At its peak, Gyeongju, the capital of the Silla Kingdom and of the Unified Silla state thereafter, was one of the world's greatest cities. UNESCO cited Gyeongju as one of the world's top ten historic sites in 1979, while Koreans justifiably call it the "Museum without Walls" because of its remarkably intact collection of historical buildings, temples, tombs, artifacts and royal burial mounds. For a thousand years before Silla defeated neighboring Baekje in A.D. 660 and Goguryeo in A.D. 668, Gyeongju was a sleepy provincial city, but with the hard-won confidence and wealth, products of victories over
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