Cheongwol Blue Moon < PREMIUM Method >

For those unable to travel, the Cheongwol Cultural Center offers a in Korean, English, and Japanese. They also sell “Wol-ha’s Ink” — a dark blue dye made from indigo and persimmon juice — used to write wish letters that are burned in a brass moon cauldron.

Wol-ha fell in love with a scholar from Hanyang (modern-day Seoul). He promised to return before the next harvest moon. He never did. Wol-ha climbed the village’s oldest stone bridge every night for a year, holding a blue silk lantern. On the night of the second full moon — dismissed by locals as “the false moon” — she vanished. No body was found. But from that night onward, villagers reported seeing a hanging directly above the bridge, and on its surface, the faint silhouette of a woman writing in the air. cheongwol blue moon