Jeju adventure - Spirited Garden

Spirited Garden, created over past 45 years by Sung Bum-Young , is a showcase of what man and nature can do together

Sung’s Spirited Garden opened in 1992 under its former name of Bunjae Artpia (Bunjae is the Korean word for Bonsai) and immediately became a popular destination on Jeju. 

But the story of the Spirited Garden started much earlier. In 1968 the site of the present day garden was farmland. Sung moved from his Korean mainland home to then remote Jeju Island with a dream of creating a great bonsai garden. 

Sung had a vision of what his garden would become and a passion for the art of bonsai. He continued to farm the land, tend his bonsai and build his garden for the next 24 years and slowly set the foundations of his Spirited Garden

There is an Inspirational Garden, Philosophical Garden and much information about Bonsai

See link to an article in Jeju Weekly about the Spirited Garden Jeju Weekly article

For more photos see Spirited Garden