Jeju Batdam Festival Celebrates 22,000-kilometer Field Wall

JEJU, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Batdam, which literally translates into ‘field wall’, are iconic man-made stone walls found across Jeju Island. As far as the history goes, batdam were first introduced when Jeju’s government officer Kim Gu (1211-1278) ordered residents to build stone walls to mark their land’s boundaries, to help end frequent land [...]