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Ulleung Island residents bemoan ferry stoppages as tourism slows after price-gouging allegations

Residents of Ulleung Island are raising their voices as passenger ferry services remain suspended amid a sharp drop in tourism following recent price-gouging controversies.

2025.9.16

Mayor vows oversight of tourism services on Ulleung Island after online complaints

Ulleung County Mayor Nam Han-kwon apologized on Wednesday for a wave of complaints posted on YouTube about the island’s low quality of service in the dining and lodging sectors.

2025.7.23

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The Dokdo islets as photographed on Oct. 25, 2024. [DAEZER SHIPPING]

Big East Sea swell injures five Dokdo-Ulleung ferry passengers

Five people suffered minor injuries after their ship from Dokdo to Ulleung Island encountered rough sea conditions on Friday evening, according to local reports.

2025.5.3

Islets of Dokdo seen from the ocean on Oct. 19, 2023. [YONHAP]

Disaster-prone areas blind to emergency alerts, Japan quake reveals

Parts of Korea's tsunami-prone east coast could be in an emergency alert blind spot, even as the frequency of natural disasters in the region continues to rise.

2024.1.7

The JoongAng Ilbo's special reporting team and researchers at the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (Kiost) swim and search in the ocean near Ulleung Island. [JOONGANG PHOTO]

Ulleung Island's fishers struggle as East Sea waters warm

Under the accelerating impact of climate change, the East Sea's marine ecosystems have been collapsing, and the ocean is facing a crisis where it may lose its inherent carbon storage capacity.

2023.10.3

Thoma Vuille colors his painting of M.Chat and Ulleung Island at Stay Neowa, a lodging on Ulleung Island, North Gyeongsang. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[ZOOM KOREA] Street artist brings iconic cat to remote Korean island

A sly grin. Six bright white teeth. Golden fur. Visitors to Paris are no doubt familiar with "M.Chat," the iconic illustrated cat that greets passersby from walls and scenic spots throughout the city, including the Eiffel Tower. The street artist...

2023.8.7

A warning issued by the South Korean Joints Chiefs of Staff last Wednesday urges people on Ulleung Island to evacuate after a North Korean missile was spotted flying toward the South Korean island earlier that day. [YONHAP]

Seoul retrieves North Korean missile fired across NLL

Seoul on Monday said it retrieved what is presumed to be the debris of a North Korean missile that flew south of the inter-Korean maritime border.

2022.11.7

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said South Korean fighters fired air-to-surface missiles into the North Korean side of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in response to North Korea's launch of a short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) south of the NLL on Wednesday morning. The photo, captured from a video released by the South Korean Air Force, shows a F-15K fighter firing a SLAM-ER cruise missile after the North Korean missile launch. [REPUBLIC OF KOREA AIR FORCE]

Pyongyang fires SRBM toward South Korean territory

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the South Korean side of the East Sea for the first time on Wednesday morning as well as 16 other missiles of various types into waters off its eastern and western coasts.

2022.11.2

People watch a news report on a North Korean ballistic missile launch at Seoul Station in central Seoul on Wednesday morning. [NEWS1]

North Korea fires ballistic missile in direction of South Korean island

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile on Wednesday morning in the direction of South Korean-controlled Ulleung Island, located off the country’s eastern coast, South Korean military officials said.