Tag: Jung-Jae Kim

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

The ancient practice of musok is often referred to as Korean shamanism. A polytheistic folk religion which carries a retinue of village guardians, household deities and ancestral spirits, its mediators are called mudang and will for a charge perform divinations and 'gut' rituals - elaborate and colourful offerings of food, song and dance during which the mudang will sometimes...