The Jeongwol
Daeboreum Fire Festival will be held at the Saebyeol
oreum located in Bongseong-ri, mountain 59-8 Aewol-eup,
Jeju-si, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province.
Saebyeol oreum has a characteristic
of a complex volcano which has the horseshoe shaped
crater that is both very wide and slightly splitted.
Also, it is rising high with the little peaks making
oval from the south peak to northwest.
The scale is above the sea level 519.3m,
height 119m, circumference 2,713m, area 522,216§³. Saebyeol
oreum, which is the middle size among the 360 oreums
in Jeju island, is named after the saying "it brightens
like a star". Such name can be written as üûàøä¿(or ãçàøä¿),
and civilians sometimes call it 'saebael oreum'. Particularly,
Saebyeol oreum is a historical place as general Young
Choi in the era of Koryo dynasty conquered Mok-Ho(ÙÌû×).
The Jeongwol Daeboreum Fire Festival
takes place in Saebyeol oreum occupying 200 thousand
pyong which the place for burning oreum and other events
occupies 100 thousand pyong respectively. Saebyeol oreum
is bordering the west street of green resort tourist
farm placed at the side of the west tourist road. It
is located at a place that takes up 20 minutes from
the Jeju airport by car.
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