Category: Culture

There is a strange paradox at the center of my relationship with Korea. I am Canadian. I grew up with Canadian culture, and understand its social codes instinctively. Korea, by contrast, is a country where I am visibly and culturally a foreigner. And yet there have been periods when I have felt more comfortable being […]

If chakras are used as a symbolic way of understanding culture rather than as scientifically measurable structures, an interesting contrast emerges between modern Western individualism and Korean social culture. Western societies could reasonably be described as heavily training the solar plexus chakra — Manipura. Korean society, by contrast, seems to place much more cultural training […]