In the Jung district of Incheon, there is an old antique shop that remains dark and hushed no matter how loudly the world outside carries on. The shop is known to harbor cursed objects, each with its own grim reputation. The most infamous among them is a necklace called "The Tears of Incheon."
It is said the necklace once belonged to a Japanese nobleman who brought it through Incheon Port in the late nineteenth century. Despite its ornate beauty, the piece brought nothing but ruin to those who wore it. The first owner died in a sinister accident not long after putting it on, and every soul who possessed the necklace after him met an equally tragic end.
Not long ago, a university student in Incheon stumbled upon the necklace in the shop and, driven by curiosity, bought it on a whim. The moment she clasped it around her neck, she began to suffer from strange auditory hallucinations and bouts of dizziness — as though the necklace were trying to drag her into some other world entirely. Those around her sensed the change at once. Slowly, she began to withdraw from everything and everyone.
She tried many times to remove it, but the clasp would not give, no matter what she did. In desperation, she sought out a shaman in Incheon and begged for help. The shaman performed a special ritual to break the curse, but midway through the ceremony, she collapsed and died where she stood. In that same instant, the necklace blazed with a strange, cold light at the student's throat, then fell away — and shattered into pieces on the floor.
The student recovered in the days that followed, but she had lost all memory of what had happened. She remembered nothing of the necklace, nothing of any of it. Yet the fragments remain in that antique shop to this day, and there are those who say that on certain nights, a low and mournful weeping can be heard drifting from somewhere near the shards.
Be careful in the alleyways of Incheon. Many curses lie sleeping there, and not all of them have been put to rest.
