Wearingeul 7 colored ocean

[antoniosz]

I visited Seoul in S. Korea last spring and came back with a number of goodies including a bottle of this nice ink. Can some explain the literature reference. It seems that it is connected with a poet named Lee (or Yi) Yuk Sa. Can someone point to the poem it refers to? 

Thanks in advance 

 

 

[fabri00]

I cannot help for your question, but I have a question on my own: as I also visit Seoul every year for business, but I never found a decent shop selling pens or inks, where you purchased that ink?

 

Thanks for the information.

[yazeh]

I couldn't find any reference to a particular poem. This is from the Goldspot website:

The Literature Inks of the Korean brand Wearingeul, or The Color of Literature Project, consists of different series of fountain pen inks in which the colors are inspired by the color moods of literary works.

The variable deep ocean is colored with red, violet, navy and blue tones. This ink has vivid red sheen on the border of ocean blue color.

 

So, it could come from this poem:

http://www.sekyonamhaines.com/the-oceans-mind

 

or might be an open interpretation of his most famous poem (according to my research):

Though depending which translation you read, you have the words ocean or see: 

http://kamiel.creativechoice.org/2018/05/21/reading-green-grapes-yuk-sa-lee/

 

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2014/12/162_169449.html

 

Unless one of our Korean members chimes in, we won't know