Photo: Manjae Island: Atop an Outpost of Regress

Manjae is one of the most distant outposts of Korea, located nearly 100 km southwest of Mokpo in the Yellow Sea. As with other islands of the region, part of Korea's Dadohae National Park, most of the island's residents have left for to seek a better life on the mainland. I scrambled one of the island's twin pathless peaks for the panorama. I was not disappointed.