Jindo Island in Jeollanam-do Province presents a miraculous natural phenomenon in the world, called the Miracle Sea Festival, an occasion similar to Moses’ Miracle. Around 1 million people visit the festival every year.
Once a year in Jindo, the seas mysteriously part and visitors can walk through the sea from the mainland to a nearby island, Modo. This phenomenon is caused due to the difference in high tides and low tides, which creates a 2.8-kilometer-long road measuring 40 to 60 meters in width. This year the festival will be from April 25 – April 28, 2013.
This amazing event was unknown to the western world until 1975, when a French ambassador to Korea, Pierre Randi visited Jindo, witnessed the miracle first-hand and introduce it as “the Korean version of the Moses Miracle” in the French paper. Since then it became growing popularity from all over the world and the locals organized a festival to celebrate the miraculous event in 1978. The spectacular sight of the waves parting is widely known and foreigners travel to Korea from all over the world to witness this amazing event.
