| Cultural Syndromes in Koreans and others - a Medical Anthropology |
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Sok Kyu Lee |
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제주아라요양병원 |
Correspondence:
Sok Kyu Lee, Email: sokkyulee@gmail.com
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| Abstract |
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Korean Physicians encounter often the patients with cultural syndromes. This paper surveys those cultural syndromes in Korea, contrasted with those in other countries in five different domains; socio-cultural, sexual, psychological, psychosomatic and religio-spiritual. I discovered three natural consequences if not intervened; 1) healed and readjusted, 2) paradigmatically shifted for the better results and 3) mal-adjustment for the worse. In the hope to let the culture shifted toward better one, I propose to allow our Koreans to be educated, inspired by Park Wansoe’s novel; Dreaming in an Incubator (꿈꾸는 인큐베이터). |
| Key Words:
Cultural, syndrome, Hwabyung, Korean, culture |
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