Case file · Haunting
Geumo sinhwa: ghost loves on Mount Geumo
Kim Si-seup, living as a monk on Gyeongju's Namsan, wrote Korea's first tales of the strange, including a scholar who dices with Buddha for a bride and learns she is a ghost.
1465 CE · 35.77, 129.23 · status: legend
The account
Written in classical Chinese around 1465–70, the collection mixes ghosts, dragon palaces and the underworld; a copy survived in Japan.