Cheju island is the only place in Korea where you can find emerald seas, and thus the hordes of tourists from the mainland swarm down to enjoy the balmy weather and hint of tropical paradise. Hawaii it ain't but certainly the island has a charm all of its own. Mobile phone camera technology now means that individuals are happy to snap away their own photos of themselves without the groupie thing. There was a certainly poetic quality about the way the two women in the background were waltzing around on their own searching out the best vantage point before snapping away for posterity.