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In Jeju, wild boars, which have become active in feeding activities ahead of the winter season, are appearing here and there, causing damage.
Ranches were razed to the ground and people were injured by attacking tourists.
Reporter Kim Tae-in of JIBS covered the story.
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The grassland where the grass should grow luxuriantly has been dug up here and there.
The ground is turned upside down as if it had been dug with an excavator.
Not a few pits are deep enough to fit an adult ankle.
These are all traces of wild boars.
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It is understood that wild boars appear in this area once or twice a week, digging everywhere for feeding.
Wild boars, which have become active in their feeding activities ahead of the winter season, dig up grass overnight to catch and eat earthworms and slugs.
The ranch owner, who has been running this place for 20 years, explains that wild boars have been frequent since last year.
The scale of damage is a whopping 30% of the total 330,000 square meters of the ranch.
[Kim Cheol-yeon/ranch owner: (every year) they start coming in October, but before, seeds were sowed and re-sowed, but now that November has passed, re-sowing is not possible...
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Just 400 meters away from the ranch, there is a forest road that visitors often come and go.
These days, when mountain climbing is becoming more frequent, accidents caused by wild boars, which have increased aggression during mating season, are also a concern.
In fact, earlier this month, a wild boar attacked a couple of visitors in their 50s on the Hallasan Dulle-gil.
[Jeju Self-Governing Province officials: We do not view wild boars as native wildlife, but treat them as foreign species, so we are catching them all year round with measures taken year-round.]
More than 200 wild boars are captured every year in Jeju.
The hunters estimate that there are about 1,000 of them living in the Hallasan area.