Speaker
SUH Myung-sook
Affliation
Jeju Olle Foundation
Title
CEO & Chairperson
Session

Biography

After working as a journalist for 23 years, Myung-sook Suh developed a dream that all other people stopped her from following. Finally, she became the woman who created trails. She bravely quit her career in journalism at 50 years old and went alone to Camino de Santiago. On the trail of Santiago, she suddenly thought of her hometown Jeju. She then decided to create a more beautiful, peaceful trail than Camino de Santiago and came back to Korea. After that, she founded the Jeju Olle Foundation and started to create walking trails. In the fall of 2012, 4 years later, she completed the 450km of the Jeju Olle Trail that goes around Jeju. Myung-sook Suh wants all people who walk the Jeju Olle Trail to become one with this trail and enjoy the healing it offers by letting go of all their deep wounds and conflicts on the trail.