By Lee Kyung-min
A huge full moon will rise next month over Seokchon Lake in Jamsil, southeastern Seoul, as a public artwork will be set up, organizers said Monday.
Songpa District Office, Lotte Shopping and Lotte Corp said visitors will be able to see the 20-meter-wide globular installation, the “Super Moon Project,” floating over the lake from Sept. 1 to 30.
Eight smaller inflatable sculptures symbolizing planets, each 4 to 5 meters in diameter, will also be set up.
From 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., the moon and planets will be lit up in seven different colors.
The project was created by FriendsWithYou, the Los Angeles-based fine arts group of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval.
The public art display comes two years after “Rubber Duck,” a 16.5-meter, 1-ton yellow duck, was installed in the lake by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2014.
“We’ve come up with the project to spread the energy of the moon, which is the symbol of plenty, along with the Chuseok holiday, the full-moon harvest festival, which falls on Sept. 15 this year,” a district official said.
Under the idea that people make a wish on the moon, Lotte Department Store will sell a limited number of Super Moon-themed lamps and donate parts of the proceeds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation that is dedicated to granting the wishes of children with incurable diseases.