Korean Folklore Explores 'Water Ghosts' in 'Salmokji: Whispering Water'

Water ghosts are calling in 'Salmokji: Whispering Water'

Korean folklore has no shortage of ghosts. Spirits latch onto just about everything — mirrors, old wells, empty rooms. But the one that's burrowed deepest into the popular imagination is the water ghost ("mulgwishin"): a drowned soul that pulls the living under. So pervasive is the motif that it's used in the everyday expression "water ghost tactic," meaning to drag someone into the ditch so they suffer alongside you. "Salmokji: Whispering Water" takes that familiar fear and builds a feature aro

By The Korea Herald