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Review of Korean Studies

ISSN 1229-0076

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Acquired Tastes: Urban Impacts on Jeju Shamanic Ritual

Review of Korean Studies June 1, 2018 Tommy Tran

What are the implications of a Starbucks bag tied on a tree as an offering to village gods or a Buddhist chant intoned in place of a shamanic invocation? This article re-considers the cultural meanings of practical material changes in Jeju shamanism in relation to its rapid urbanization since the early 2000s. Though often romanticized as an idyllic rural paradise or a bastion of shamanic...