Pukyong National University

 
aemado (Tsusima) has been captured by the Pukyong Today's camera on the afternoon of 27th September.
The island is the long hill behind Oryukdo lighthouse.
If we look at an enlarged shot on a computer, we can even see the white steel tower structure.
The island has been seen from the Yongdang campus.
This is the view seen from the rooftop of Engineering building #10.
Deamado, the closest part of Japan from Korea, looks like we can touch it with our hands.
Byun Hui-Ryong, who is a professor in the department of environmental atmospheric sciences of Pukyong National University, 
said the fact that we can see the island is actually a kind of mirage, due to the refraction of light which has been made 
because of the difference of temperature between the two places.
It means that it is actually impossible to see the island with the human eye, as the closest distance from the northern part of Igidae 
to the top of Mitake Mountain in Daemado is around 65 km.
Do you know where the only Daemado research facility of Korea is?
It is the Daemado Reseach Centre (Head Geun Woo Rhee professor of department of history) placed in Pukyong National University.
The centre which opened in 2008 has systematically studied the history of the relationship between Busan and Daemado, and Korea 
and Japan with knowledge of various fields such as history, culture, geography, antiquities, and geology.

Look at Daemado in this old map made in the Joseon period.
This old map was shown by the centre in the exhibition of Daemado maps of Japan and Joseon in December last year.
This map expresses Domo camp and areas around it which were placed in Dongraebu at the end of the Joseon period (1872).
It is amazing that the person who produced this map used the side image of Daemado which is the same figure of Pukyong Today's picture.
As the old Busan Dongraebu is drawn together with Daemado, the island looks more familiar.
How about taking a walk to see Daemado this weekend? <Pukyong Today>