Korean Mermaid / 인어(人魚)

Turtle-like sea creature with a shell on its back. Although it is mostly spotted by its surreal beauty with the red skin, gold hair and yellow eyes. It cries bitterly when captured by humans and sheds white teardrops and its teardrops become a marble. Mermaid has been mostly captured as a victim as it was the source of precious oil which is known to be far scarcer than whale oil.

Poem Liver by Yun Dong-ju

Korean modern poem which covered the motif of Hare’s tale from Korean folk literature and Prometheus in Greek mythology. With liver representing a quintessence of life in both stories, the poet correlated the theme with his text and sympathised with the characters self-depracatingly: the hare who was threatened to death in underwater due to king’s avarice toward its liver and Prometheus endlessly tortured by eagles eating his liver for his sins of having stolen the fire for human kind.

Music & sound design by Ji-Sung Poetry reading by ShinyTiger