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Jeju Island is the only place in Korea with available pasture territory to grow horses in large ammount.



The Jeju horse is a small to medium-sized breed with a large head and a thick neck. It has a block-shaped body with a relatively long torso compared to its heights measured from the ground to withers or from the ground to its hip. They were traditionally used as farm and draft horses because of their remarkable stamina and endurance, while current breeds are utilized for racing and riding. With firm and thick hoofs, they run without the need for horseshoes.

The Jeju horse exhibits a range of colors, which determine the names of the types, along with the characteristics of each body part. The coat color also forms a standard to distinguish each type.

• Garama (가라마, black): The entire coat color is black.
• Jeokdama (적다마, chestnut): The entire coat color is light brown or chestnut.
• Wallama (월라마, pinto): The basic coat color is bay or black with white spots.
• Yuma (유마, bay): The overall coat color is chestnut, brown, or black while the color of mane, tail, and lower legs is black.
• Chongma (총마, gray): The entire coat color is bay, chestnut, or black mixed with white hair.
• Gonggolma (공골마, sorrel): The coat is cream-colored with sorrel hair.
• Gorama (고라마, fallow): The entire coat color is light brown with a black line stretching from mane to strunt and black lower legs.
• Buruma (부루마, roan): The coat color is a mixture of bay, chestnut, and black added with white. It has less white hair than Chongma, and the legs especially exhibit the basic coat color without white spots.
• Geoheulma (거흘마, spotted): The colors around its eyes, lower abdomen, and legs are lighter or whiter than that of the entire coat.
• Jaheulma (자흘마, speckled): The coat has different sizes of freckles scattered over its entire body.