Modo () is a small island in Jindo County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, just off the southwest corner of the Korean peninsula. It is located to the south-east of Jindo Island and is about long and wide.
The tide-related sea level variations result in a land pass long and 10–40 meters wide opening for approximately an hour between Modo and Jindo islands. The event occurs roughly twice a year, around April–June.Times sea way opens in 2009 , Jindo County It had long been celebrated in a local festival called "Jindo's Sea Way", but was largely unknown to the world until 1975, when the French ambassador Pierre Randi described the phenomenon in a French newspaper.The Moses Miracle Of Jindo Island , 17 July 2010Майские фестивали в Чолладо – от "чуда Моисея" до боя быков (in Russian) Nowadays, nearly half a million foreign and local tourists attend the event annually. It is accompanied by local festivals which include Ganggangsuwollae (Korean traditional circle dance), Ssitkim-gut (a shaman ritual, consoling the souls of the dead), Deul Norae (traditional farmers' songs), Manga (burial ceremony songs), Jindo dog show, Buknori (drum performance) and fireworks.Jindo Mysterious Sea Road , Jindo CountyMartin Robinson, Ray Bartlett, Rob Whyte Korea, Lonely Planet, 2007 , p. 266
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External links Satellite images of island and the "miracle road" (vague) County government home page