Victoria Ten – Technologies Of Self In Contemporary Korea- The Notion Of Suryŏn (修練) In GiCheon (氣天) – Pages 76-96

Abstract
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 and understanding of GiCheon praxis in the new social and political context, revealing the mechanisms of self-construction in modern and post-modern...