About this place
This entry refers to the Salesians’ Jeju Geumak-ri Community as registered in the Korean Catholic directory. The directory gives the official English name Society of St. Francis de Sales: S.D.B. and identifies members of the community with responsibilities connected to Sumbisori, a youth recovery support facility in the Geumak area. The current Diocese of Jeju directory also lists the Salesians among the men’s religious communities active in the diocese.
The site is therefore better understood as a religious community dedicated to youth ministry than as a parish or pilgrimage shrine. In the tradition of Saint John Bosco, the Salesians place the education and accompaniment of young people at the center of their mission, and the Jeju Geumak-ri community has been connected with work supporting young people in crisis and recovery. Its significance lies in the meeting of religious life and youth-care ministry rather than in the function of a public parish church.
History & origins
The exact year when the Salesian community at Geumak-ri was first established is not stated in the current official directory, but by 2021 the community was clearly ministering at the Isidore Sumbisori youth recovery support facility in Geumak-ri. In August of that year, a new Jeju Isidore group of the Association of Salesian Cooperators held its first meeting, with a priest of the Geumak-ri community providing spiritual accompaniment. This shows that the community’s youth ministry was connected with the wider Salesian family in Jeju.
More recently, the physical setting of that ministry changed. In May 2026 the Salesians opened a new Jocheon Community in Jocheon-eup, Jeju City, and moved the Sumbisori facility there, celebrating a blessing for the new site. The new community was arranged to house both the youth recovery support facility and a men’s religious community.
The Korean Catholic directory, however, still separately lists the “Jeju Geumak-ri Community” in 2026. There is therefore no basis for interpreting the transfer of Sumbisori as proof that the Geumak-ri community itself was closed. On the evidence available, Geumak-ri was at least one center of Salesian youth recovery ministry by 2021, and the creation of the Jocheon Community in 2026 marks a reorganization of the locations and structures through which that ministry is carried out.
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