Based in Moseulpo, Jeju, Doyeon Park runs Sanhoyo and creates ceramic works using Jeju clay and seashells from the island’s sea.

The discarded shells collected from haenyeo and local restaurants are washed, dried, and used as ceramic materials, giving new purpose to what was once thrown away.

A story about leftover shells once being used to make buttons in Moseulpo became a point of connection between the memory of this seaside village and Park’s work.

One of Park’s signature works, the Half Moon Jar, is a personal reinterpretation of the traditional moon jar, changing with light, time, and the viewer’s perspective.

Recently, Park has been preparing a new Sanhoyo studio where people can experience Jeju’s materials and culture more closely.

After meeting in Paris and becoming a married couple, Misun Song and Ceng Hong Law moved to Jeju with their family, where they now run Jeju Bao Club. Misun studied natural language processing in Paris and worked as a project manager before launching and operating her own children’s play mat brand in Europe. Born and raised in Paris, Ceng Hong worked for a French luxury fashion brand for ten years before moving to Jeju. At Jeju Bao Club, they serve handmade bao alongside Hong Kong-inspired dishes such as char siu pork, dongpo pork, mango sago, and egg tarts. They also incorporate local ingredients, including Jeju pork and Hallabong citrus, while shaping the restaurant around a lifestyle that allows them to prioritize time with their family.

Gavin and Jinha first met in Ireland, spent time between Ireland and Korea, and eventually settled in Jeju. Gavin studied anthropology and now runs an online English reading group, where people read books together and share conversations. Jinha worked in PR, marketing, and film photography in Seoul, and after moving to Jeju, she has mainly worked in accommodation content marketing. She is currently in charge of the management and marketing of a newly opened stay. While continuing their own work in Jeju, the two are also thinking together about English book clubs, content work, and new cultural projects they could create on the island, such as a book festival connecting writers from Ireland and Korea.

Based in Jeju, Moon Singi works in illustration and design, while also expanding his practice through painting, writing, and travel. After studying Western painting, he has worked across publishing, illustration, and graphic design, and has also participated in guidebook projects on Okinawa and Spain. His experience of being born and raised in Jeju has led to his interest in islands and island people, which he has explored through his fictional island project, Arkaia. Recently, he has been teaching in the Department of Design at Jeju National University, while also taking an interest in new technologies and media such as AI. Drawing from the landscapes, people, climate, and local stories he encounters through travel and everyday life, he continues to develop his own visual language.

Park Keun Ju works with photography in Jeju and is currently continuing a color-field abstract series on buildings under the theme of “reality and ideal.”

He studied photography at university, and began his first personal project after a volunteer trip to Madagascar in 2008, which led him to pursue his path as an artist. Since moving to Jeju in 2017,

he has photographed landscapes, buildings, and people from behind.

His work has been introduced overseas through Saatchi Art, and he presented his Romantic Melancholy series in an exhibition in Germany.

He has also expanded his photography practice through local projects, including a Jongdal-ri village booklet project and photography classes with children in Jeju.

He is an experimental filmmaker working with 16mm film in Jeju. He runs Samguri Film Lab, an artist-run film lab in Seogwipo focused on analog film and darkroom processes. At the lab, he shares knowledge of film developing, alternative materials, and experimental 16mm techniques through workshops. His work is shaped by hands-on processes, chance discoveries, and the community around analog filmmaking. He continues to explore film as a medium for artistic inquiry and community-based practice. He is also a sailing activist active in the anti-base movement in the Pacific as well as recently on the flotilla to break the siege in Gaza.

She founded and runs Dongbaek Small School, an alternative boarding school in Jeju. After working for nearly 20 years as a teacher and head teacher at Gandhi School, where she experienced the philosophy of alternative education and community life, she established a school in Jeju to create a smaller learning community. Dongbaek Small School values learning that helps students live as themselves, care for one another, and stay connected with the world, rather than focusing on exams, rankings, or standardized textbooks. Through boarding life, self-governing meetings, project-based classes, and activities connected to Jeju’s villages and nature, students learn democracy, peace, ecology, and human rights in everyday life. She hopes the school will continue as a small educational community where every student’s voice is heard and each person can grow as their true self.