This is a Korean Urban Legend.
When it comes to collecting bodies in the sea, ocean, or lake, there are three unwritten rules. One of them is the most important one – never go near a standing corpse. We all know that when someone drowns and dies, they float. But they never float upright. So when you see something like a piece of black seaweed floating on the sea surface, they are most likely the hair of water ghosts, trying to trick you into "rescuing" it or picking it up. If you try to salvage the body, you will get caught up in a whirlpool and drown like they did. According to some rescued drowning victims, they felt as if something was pulling them from below as they were struggling to stay afloat – it might be because these "black seaweeds" were trying to find some company. Water ghost's tend to drown other people in the water as revenge for them to experience the same pain they did when they died by drowning. Rivers or other water bodies with frequent occurrence of drowning accident usually are stigmatized as being places where water ghosts "hang around".
Origins: Unknown.
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