Suneung Gate Cheer
Stand together at a school gate on Korea's college exam day, stick yeot candy and leave a cheer for test-takers.
Places to send someone facing a big exam. Stick lucky taffy on a virtual school gate and leave a cheer, pray for a pass at a mountain temple, or study silently alongside strangers.
Stand together at a school gate on Korea's college exam day, stick yeot candy and leave a cheer for test-takers.
Pick a room like the exam room or the secret cave, write a wish on a lantern, send it into the sky and cheer on others' wishes.
Bow before the Gatbawi Buddha on Mt. Palgong and write wishes on roof tiles and candles. Follows real time and weather.
A Taiwanese-style shrine to Wenchang, god of exams. Light incense, pass your admission ticket over the burner, draw a fortune and hang a wish card.
Press your palms together, bow, and count prayer beads with others in the main hall of a mountain temple.
Become a pebble, climb the mountain trail, write a wish, and stack it onto the summit cairn together with everyone else.
Sit at an empty desk in a lit classroom at 10 p.m. and study silently with strangers. Work hard and the teacher comes to pat your head.
Print an entry ticket and take a seat in a quiet reading room to study. There's no chat; everyone keeps the same study and break times.
Study silently alongside strangers. Leave the window seat and someone will take it.
Take an empty seat in a pixel café, start the timer and study. Play rain sounds or jazz, and order a drink at the counter.
Walk a moonlit garden, cheer on other people's wishes floating down the channel and set your own wish afloat.
Float lanterns into the night sky over a hill and tie wishes to the wishing tree, under the same sky as the people here right now.
Walk to the Bethesda, Trevi and Haedong Yonggungsa fountains and toss a coin with a wish on it. Read others' wishes in the pond.