Editing Mermaid (section)

== Korean folklore ==
[[Korea]] is bound on three sides by the sea. In some villages near the sea in Korea, there are mysterious stories about mermaids. Mermaids have features just like humans. Kim Dam Ryeong, a mayor of the town{{Specify |reason=Which town? |date=December 2022}}, saved four captured mermaids from a fisherman, as recorded in the ''[[Eou yadam]]'' (''unofficial histories'').<ref>{{cite book|last1=Keith |first1=Sarah |author-link=<!--Sarah Keith--> |last2=Lee |first2=Sung-Ae |author-link2=<!--Sung-Ae Lee--> |chapter=Legend of the Blue Sea: Mermaids in South Korean folklore and popular culture |editor-last=Hayward |editor-first=Philip |editor-link=<!--Philip Hayward--> |title=Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid |year=2018 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0861967322|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrFiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 |pages=78–79}}</ref> In [[Dongbaekseom|Dongabaek Island]] of [[Busan]] is a tale of Princess Hwang-ok from Naranda, a mythical undersea kingdom of mermaids; this tale is based on the historical [[Heo Hwang-ok]] from [[India]].{{sfnp|Keith|Lee|2018|pp=73–74}} Another tale concerns a mermaid named Sinjike ({{langx|ko|신지끼}}) who warned fishermen of impending storms by singing and throwing rocks into the sea from [[Port Hamilton|Geomun Island]]. The island's residents believed her to be a goddess of the sea and that she could predict the weather.{{sfnp|Keith|Lee|2018|p=74}}