Map services often employ photographers to capture road and street view imagery. In 2010, the Korean map service Daum Kakao Maps sent a photographer to capture the first street-view images of a little island in South Korea. The photographer soon realized that he was being followed, even though no one except a family of three lived on the island.
Representative Image Source: The Island of Jukdo (bamboo island) off Ulleung-Do in Korea. 120 km (75 mi) east of the Korean Peninsula, the Ulleung-Do is a popular tourist destination. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)
Daum Kakao is a service quite similar to Google Maps and Google Earth. It provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in Korea. This time, they sent a photographer to capture some snaps of Jukdo, a small inhabited island near Ulleungdo Island, located 4 kilometers apart from Jeodonghang Port and 7 kilometers away from Dodonghang Port in the East Sea of Korea.
Jukdo is less than half a mile long and only a third of a mile wide. So, while the photographer was steering along the scenic trails of the pristine island, snapping everything from tall bamboo grasses to vast flower pastures and sunlit emerald-grey cliffs, he soon learned that wherever he went, he was being accompanied by someone.
Image Source: Daum Kakao Maps
As it turned out, a fluffy golden retriever was trotting by his side, almost as if guiding him along the island’s trails and wooded pathways. The dog appears in almost every snapshot of the street view galleries of Kakao Maps. Since then, the pooch has become a photogenic symbol of Jukdo island.
Image Source: Daum Kakao Maps
Nearly every picture that the Daum Kakao photographer took is marked with the portrait of his fur buddy who seemed to be quite hospitable to the island’s sole guest.
Image Source: Daum Kakao Maps
The story of this photobombing doggo garnered lots of love on social media, instantly becoming viral. It was also shared on Reddit's r/MadeMeSmile group. According to the Green Me Magazine, the dog’s name was Maru. It arrived on the island at the age of two and lived there for a few years, after which Maru passed away. Several Korean newspapers paid tribute to Maru, describing him as a sociable and affectionate dog.
Image Source: Daum Kakao Maps
Despite living on an island that is quite isolated, the pup managed to create a memorable history of his lifetime, in the form of golden marks that appear on the screen every time an avid traveler looks at the photographs of this small Korean island.
You can catch a glimpse of the adorable golden pooch here.
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.