A revealing, impartial, yet sometimes shocking look into the history, traditions and practices of the dying art of Korean shamanism, chronicling the lives of living, practising "hereditary" and ...

In the 1970s it became a popular trend to summon MacArthur, going so far as to don his trademark corncob pipe and sunglasses ...

These rituals (called gut) are performed by the shaman (or mudang) in order to a) communicate with spirits and b) resolve spiritual disturbances or remove spiritual curses, trauma and the like.