You Can Do It Solo, Too❣️ Jeju Self-Snap Photo Spots 📸

My brother-in-law’s family came to Jeju again after quite a while. Since our family moved to Jeju, this is their third visit. I can’t believe they only came twice over the past seven years—maybe we’ve both been a little too busy with each other.

Because both of them work, it’s not easy for them to take time off together. Maybe this time of year is when things are the calmest—last time they visited, it was also this season, and both times they brought a typhoon with them.

With an unusually high number of typhoon forecasts leading up to this trip, we kept our ears glued to the weather report day after day. This time, there was a special reason the weather absolutely had to be good.

In Jeju, my sister-in-law’s belly is now very round. The reason she made the trip all the way here in late pregnancy is simple: she wants to leave behind beautiful photos with Jeju as the backdrop. I may not be a pro, but I promised I’d help as much as I could.

I’d already picked out a list of places I’d been keeping an eye on while living in Jeju. This is the story of our photo trip—traveling and shooting for 3 nights and 4 days against Jeju’s crystal-clear autumn scenery.

Jeju Chowon

I wanted to give them the most “Jeju-like” photos possible. That’s why I put the most care into choosing this spot: wide open fields, the ridgelines of oreum, and something quintessentially Jeju—architecture and trees.

I discovered it by chance last spring while hiking Golcheoreum in Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup. It already seems to be well-known among snap photographers.

Baekyakioreum

Autumn in Jeju is also the season of oreum. If you frame those soft, rounded ridges together with the Jeju sky, you really can’t go wrong.

At Baekyakioreum, you can capture great shots with the long trail at the entrance as your backdrop. And it’s even better because you can take photos without actually climbing the oreum. You probably came dressed up in cute outfits for a snap shoot—so it would be a shame to ruin them.

Hueree

At some point, “autumn” started to mean pink muhly to me. Thinking about a photo you can only take in this exact season, we decided on pink muhly.

Jeju has many pink muhly spots. After looking into different places, we chose Hueree—because the goal wasn’t just photos, but a family trip too, and this place satisfies both.

Seongisidol Ranch Teshphon

The Teshphon at Seongisidol Ranch is a unique structure and already famous as a photo spot. My sister-in-law really wanted to shoot here, but unfortunately the weather was at its worst that day.

The second photo is the road to Sammoeso next to Seongisidol Ranch. I’d scouted it in advance because I wanted to capture a more European vibe.

Mundojoreum

We visited Mundojoreum because we wanted photos with horses—one of Jeju’s symbols. The horses are usually up near the top, but on this day they stayed midway along the trail and didn’t come up, so we couldn’t get the shots we wanted. 

Mundojoreum is an oreum located right in the middle of gotjawal. That means vast forest spreads out all around, letting you capture nature in its raw scale.