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11 traditional Korean poems head to the moon

U.S. company Firefly Aerospace’s moon lander, Blue Ghost [FIREFLY AEROSPACE]

U.S. company Firefly Aerospace’s moon lander, Blue Ghost [FIREFLY AEROSPACE]

 
A total of 11 traditional Korean poems known as sijo were launched into space on a rocket heading for the moon on Wednesday.
 
Sijo is a traditional Korean poetic form originating from the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392) consisting of three lines with 14 to 16 syllables each.
 
The Sejong Cultural Society, a Korean American cultural foundation based in Chicago, announced on Wednesday that the U.S. company Firefly Aerospace’s moon lander, Blue Ghost, is carrying 11 sijo while aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9.
 

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The 11 sijo are part of a poetry collection titled "Polaris Trilogy," which is part of the "Lunar Codex" project. 
 
The "Lunar Codex" aims to send global artworks to the moon to serve as a time capsule of cultural heritage for future generations. This initiative will deploy a total of seven rockets and the latest launch was the fourth.
 
The poems and other works are inscribed on a nickel film or stored on computer memory cards.
 
The collection includes Kim Dal-ho's "Dream of a Meteor," Koo Choong-hoe's "To the Moon," Kim Heung-yeol's "Galaxy" and Choi Eun-hee's "Moonlight Sonata.” Eight of the poems are written in hangul, the Korean alphabet, while the other three are in English.
 
Blue Ghost is scheduled to land on Mare Crisium, a basalt plain on the moon's northeastern side, in early March, approximately 45 days after launch. A successful landing would mark the first arrival of Korean data on the moon.

BY YOON SEUNG-JIN [[email protected]]
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