Songaksan

Songaksan Mountain is a windswept, dormant volcano on the southwest tip of Jeju Island, Korea.  Its coastal ridge offers stunning, panoramic views of Jeju Island to the north, the East China Sea to the southeast, and Gapado and Marado Islands to the south.  Tiny Marado Island is the southern terminus of Korea.

From Songaksan, looking north toward Mt. Sanbangsan
and the surrounding oreum (parasitic cone volcanos) of Jeju Island.

On Songaksan's coastal ridge with Mt. Sanbangsan
in the distance.

The occupying forces of the Imperial Japanese Military
dug cave trenches along the coastal ridge line of Mt. Songaksan
from 1943 to 1945.

From these dugouts, Japanese soldiers peered
out across the East China Sea,
awaiting the great, decisive battle
of the Pacific War.
That battle never reached these shores.

Songaksan coast with the East China Sea
as a backdrop.

A treacherous stairway descends
from the top of Songaksan Ridge down to the sea.