A Surveyor in a 1,035-Year-Old Story Dan Burke, Jr. recently ran into a stubborn land surveyor (redundant?) in a 745-year-old telling of a 1,035-year-old story from Gimhae, South Korea. Samguk Yusa: Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms (compiled c. 1281) by Iryeon features ghosts and a land surveyor that was tasked with surveying the plot of land for the Tomb of King Suro - a real place! See the excerpt below: In the second year of Hsun-Hua (991) a land surveyor in Kimhae-pu nam