Just got a tattoo. Here’s some pictures of it, still raw and bloody from the two and some hours it took to get it done. Shit was painful. I would have cried, but that would require reverberations of my rib cage, which would have just increased the pain.
It’s a traditional woodblock print of a dokkaebi (도깨비), a common type of monster in Korean folktales. “These creatures loved mischief and playing mean tricks on bad people and they rewarded good people with wealth and blessings” (wikipedia). 또개비s are really cool because unlike the traditional “evil boogeyman” that typify the monsters of western folklore, the Korean 또개비 was more of an anthropomorphized manifestation of nature or karma, which I think is very interesting. Plus the woodblock print is beautiful. This specific design was just one of many different and equally beautiful prints. If you keep your peepers open, these types of designs are all over Korea.
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Post Edit: I got it done at 75th tattoo. It’s a tattoo parlor in 홍대, second floor of the building right next to club FF. Check it out! Affordable and clean, also they have a huge husky (no not the bear), that just hangs around.
