Winds, Grandmothers and Fire Dogs

"e;In an age of catastrophic forgetting, Jeju Island remembers. Its myths don't gather dust in museums-they breathe in the wind, whisper from volcanic stone, and pulse through the hands of women who still dive into the mouth of death to feed their families. This lecture is not about the past. It's about the stories we need right now like tales of grandmothers who become mountains, resistance fighters who become wind, and the radical idea that memory itself is survival. Join me as we descend into an island where the dead refuse silence, where household serpents judge how you share your rice, and where the greatest sin isn't violence-it's amnesia. The myths are still telling. The question is: are we still listening?"e; Jack Han, MythologistJack Han is a mythologist who lectures at various schools and consults on film, television, and interactive media projects, bringing the forgotten cosmologies of Korea to life for contemporary audiences.