Table 6. The landscape ecological interpretation of Olle-gil Coastal, Jeju

Resources Landscape ecology
Ecotope Anthropotope
Topography, geological feature (geotope) Vegetation, animals (biotope) Origin of place names, legends History·culture Visual landscape
Seashore of Jeju

Volcanic topography extended to coast

Basalt bed rock

Coastal sand dune

Dark sands

Golden sands

Small round stones in seashore

Gushing spot in seashore

Vegetation in seashore

Vitex rotundifolia L. FIL.

Vegetation in grassfields

Vegetation in bedrocks in seashore

Diversified wild birds

Marine creatures Inhabited fissures between rocks in seashore

Place names originated from gushing spots (in seashore)

Legends involved with rocks

Object of popular belief

Culture of female divers in Jeju Island

The sound of “Sumbigi” of female divers in Jeju Island

To experience the diving of female divers in Jeju Island

The “Bul-teok (the spot of fire and undressing)” of female divers in Jeju Island

The house of female diver(s)

Bed rocks in seashores, basalt bed rock

“Bille (broad flat rock)”, rock, cliff, waterfall

Port, lighthouse

Blue sea

O-reum(s) (parasitic volcanoes)

Circular or elliptical shapes of the body of hills (or mountains)

Crater topography

Vegetation of herbs in O-reum(s)

Evergreen broad-leaved tree

Marshy habitat of craters, inhabited small creatures

This implies the small hills

The narrative of the beginning of Jeju Island

The myth of “Seol-mun-dae-hal-mang (the giant goddess who created Jeju Island)”

Culture of pasturage of horses

The beacon and encampment for military purposes

Object of popular belief

Landscape seen from the top of o-reum

Landscape of vegetation of o-reum

Landscape of topography of o-reum

“Ja-wal (bush)”

Lava topography: lava bank, tumulus, tree-shaped lava, lava dome, accreted lava ball

Geological feature and topography of rugged rocks

Vegetation of Gotjawal forest: plants of northern limit- and southern limit lines

The lung of ecosystem

Bryophyta, pteridophyte

Evergreen broad-leaved tree

The combination of the terms of “Jawal”, implying shallow wildland, and “Got” that signifies the woods

Previously recognized as barren land

Water and feeds for grazing stocks are secured owing to the development of marshy lands

Shelter place from wind, rain, and snow

Vegetation of Gotjawal forest

Landscape of geological features

Topography of rugged rocks and vines

Trees of peculiar shapes

Dry fields, ridge or enclosure of dry fields

Porous structure and shapes of the ridge or enclosure of dry fields

The shapes and sizes of stones of the ridge or enclosure of dry fields

A variety of utilities of the ridge or enclosure of dry fields

The soils in dry fields of Jeju Island

Crops from dry fields

Tangerine Tree

Cryptomeria

The vegetation inhabiting the ridge or enclosure of dry fields

Small creatures inhabiting fissures between porous stones/rocks

Wilds birds

The black dragon that extends (thousands of) miles: portraying the bird’s-eye-view of landscape similar to the giant black dragon

“Sunul-eum (community culture of collaboration)”

Farming culture of Jeju Island

“Badang-bat (the sea that allows free diving of female divers in Jeju Island)”

Differences in farming cultures varied according to the fertility of soils

A variety of landscapes of the ridge or enclosure of dry fields: types of the ridge or enclosure of dry fields: “Oi-dam”, “Jeop-dam”, “Jat-dam”, “Japgup-dam”

The landscape of the soils in dry fields in jeju island: volcanic ash soils (dark brown)

Houses in Jeju Island, stone walls, alleys or narrow lanes (in villages)

Diversified ways of the build-up of stone walls

The structure and shapes of stone walls

Topography of village sites

Trees of big diameter, nurse tree

Chinese nettle tree, “jeongja-mok (a big tree serving as a shady resting place in a village)”

A variety of vegetations on stone walls

Crops from dry fields attached to houses

Wild birds

Village names

The legends involved with each village

Aspects of various lives of local residents

Community culture

A roof of eulalia grass tied with straps made of eulalia grass

Views of alleys or narrow lanes (in villages)

Views of stone walls (of a house)

Views of a yard of a house and dry field attached to a house