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- Korean Spirituality Who Were the Hwarang? The Flower Youths of Silla Who were the hwarang? What Korea's oldest surviving history records of Silla's flower youths: a boy named Sadaham, five rules, and an older way they carried.
- Korea & the World What Does the Korean Flag Mean? The Taegeukgi Explained What does the Korean flag mean? The red and blue circle, the four black trigrams, the white field, and the 1882 voyage that gave Korea its flag.
- Modern Practice How to Stop Being Carried by Your Feelings: Ji-gam, the First Mirror Practice of Korean Meditation After the sword comes the mirror. Here is ji-gam, the Korean practice of watching each feeling until it passes, so your recovered True Nature stays clear.
- Modern Practice How to Let Go of Your Self-Image: A Korean Practice for Dissolving the "Me" You Built Who you think you are is a picture you built over a lifetime. Here is sang, and a Korean sword-of-sunlight practice for letting go of the self-image.
- Korean Spirituality What Is a Dokkaebi? The Korean Goblin of Old Folktales A dokkaebi is the Korean goblin, a night visitor whose magic club makes one man rich and beats the next. The old folktales, and the chronicles on Chiu.
- Modern Practice Korean Meditation for Beginners: A 10-Minute Evening Practice New to Korean meditation? Try ji-gam tonight: a 10-minute evening practice of watching one small scene from your day and letting it go, step by step.
- Korean Spirituality What Is a Mudang? Korea's Shamans and the Ritual Called Gut A mudang is a Korean shaman who serves the spirits and leads the ritual called gut. Here is what is real behind Exhuma and KPop Demon Hunters.
- Korea & the World What Is Dongji? Korea's Winter Solstice and Red Bean Porridge Dongji is Korea's winter solstice, December 22 in 2026. Families cook red bean porridge and call the longest night the little new year. Here is why.
- Korea & the World What Is Jesa? Korean Ancestral Rites and the Charye Table Jesa is the Korean rite of setting a table for one's ancestors. Here is what happens, how holiday charye differs from gije, and what the table is for.
- Korean Spirituality Who Is the Jeoseung Saja? Korea's Grim Reaper Explained The jeoseung saja is Korea's messenger of the dead. Why families fed him at the gate, and where the black hat in K-dramas comes from.
- Dangun & Ancient History Who Was Jumong? The Archer Who Founded Goguryeo Jumong founded Goguryeo; a history of 1145 dates it to 37 BCE. What the old records say about the archer behind the K-drama: egg, bow, river and dragon.
- Korea & the World How Was Hangul Created? The Heaven, Earth, Human Design Behind It Hangul's vowels are drawn as heaven, earth and human. The Dangun Segi says a Dangun had 38 letters made in 2181 BCE. Read both on Hangul Day.