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Victoria Ten, Technologies of Self in Contemporary Korea: The Notion of Suryŏn (修練) in GiCheon (氣天)

Victoria Ten, ‘Technologies of Self in Contemporary Korea: The Notion of Suryŏn (修練) in GiCheon (氣天),’ Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies, Vol. 16 (2015): 76-96. GiCheon (氣天) is one of many contemporary South Korean mind-body disciplines focused on physical and moral self-cultivation. Utilizing a series of interviews with the adherents of this movement, this paper examines their individual experience… Read more →