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A Tourism-based Approach: The Drift Records by Choi-Bu

This year marks the 530th anniversary of the landing of Choi-Bu on the coast of China after a rough time of drift. Choi-Bu left a diary of 135 days of personal experience in China. In the diary, he recorded not only the fear of drift and the overcoming process during the 14 days of drift but also what he saw, heard and experienced in the process of drifting, landing on China and returning to his homeland. When it was not easy to have exchanges with other countries, his records gave new information to many people and stimulated their imagination. The purpose of the drift records to deliver information fit the interest of the readers. While researching the drift records of Choi-Bu, I came to know that the drift of Jeju people, who mainly worked in the sea, occurred more frequently than I had thought and there were various records about them. So I investigated various drift records remaining in Korea to discover materials for humanity tourism. I thought the results of the researches made in adjacent disciplines such as sea literature and travel literature could be used as a part of tourism studies. In particular, I classified them by climate, traffic line, local image and cultural experience that are the main factors of tourism activities to use them for the discovery of global contents penetrating the past and the present. As a result, I was able to prepare basic materials that met my expectation. However, more further researches are necessary to find out the names of places in each era, types of road, changes in means of transportation, etc. in order to complement the connection between courses, marketability, experiencing programs, storytelling, etc. I expect that a new route for special purpose tourism connecting the places of drift, landing and return can be discovered as a tourism resource on the basis of sustainable cooperative research between Korea and China.