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 ...

The South Korean followers of musok call them mudang, and they act as the link between the followers of the musok religion and its deities. The rituals they perform are meant to entertain the gods ...

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.