Maker

On Daeheung Farm, there is a spring that does not dry in winter. It was always there — a small ongdalsaem (옹달샘), a pool fed from underground. I enclosed it and named it Daeheung Spring (대흥샘). How It Was Built No magic, no machinery doing the fine work. Just time and mortar. A hired excavator traced the underground source and opened the ground around it. I ordered a marble coping — the rim that edges the basin — from a stone mason. Then I mixed and applied roughly 100 bags of 40 kg mortar by hand to seal the floor and walls of the basin. That is four tonnes of mortar, mixed and trowelled over several months. ...