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🍁A friend like medicine: https://bit.ly/ebs_bang Gapado is the first island in Jeju to see spring. When the green barley that survived the winter wind sways in the wind, it is a sign that spring has come. It is said that Gapado prepares for spring in earnest from this time… We meet the spring of the Gapado islanders that tourists do not know. “The green barley is growing green. I can tell that spring has come when I see that.” Today, too, grandmother Kim Soon-deok heads to the barley field driving a cultivator. She has been farming green barley for 55 years since she got married and moved to Gapado. Barley is a precious food that is indispensable to Gapado. It was the life itself that was responsible for the entire year of the Gapado people, to the point that there was a barley vacation during the harvest season. Grandmother Kim Soon-deok also raised three sons with this barley and sent them to the mainland. This year, the grandmother’s heart warms at the thought of harvesting green barley, drying it, and sending it to her sons. Lee Young-yeol, who visited Gapado three years ago and fell in love with the island’s charm, has settled down there. She lives on Gapado doing natural dyeing. The dyeing material that Young-yeol looks for on the beach in spring is none other than seaweed. Unlike the green seaweed on the mainland that resembles seaweed, Gapado’s seaweed is a brown algae from the kelp family. In addition, the salty spring breeze and hot sunlight of Gapado are the best environment for natural dyeing. We spend a spring day full of emotion with natural dyer Lee Young-yeol, who says that wearing clothes dyed with seaweed feels like wearing the sea. “I come to the beach every day to pick up seashells.” “It’s not something that can be done with a little sincerity. It’s a garden filled with my heart.” Grandfather Kim Bu-jeon, who diligently goes out to the sea from the morning, picks up a basketful of seashells and abalone shells. They are for his wife, Lee Chun-ja. Grandmother Chun-ja is a famous artist on Gapado. The walls and stone walls of the house are decorated with abalone, conches, and snails, and the floor is paved with round pebbles. The house of an old couple who decorated it with their heart and soul for the past 10 years is a hot place in Gapado! We meet the couple Kim Bu-jeon and Lee Chun-ja who live happily in the Yonggung Garden. ✔ Program name: Korea Travelogue - Jeju that is not in travel books, Part 3, If green barley sways on that island ✔ Broadcast date: 2019. 03. 27 #KoreaTravelogue #Jeju #Spring #GreenBarley #Travel #Island