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Korean Mountain Culture

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Korean mountains are objects of sacred and religious worship in Korea. Although Korea is now a developed and busy industrialized country, the hard granite topography of its mountainous landscape has prevented any major industrial development in these parts. This in turn has allowed for the personal preservation of a hidden and barely unpublicized culture of mountain worship. Korean Mountain Culture is the overall generalization that Hike Korea and other experts in Korea use to depict a wonderful array of religious, shamanic, ecological, and other life giving vitality-forces that are cast all over the beautiful Korean mountain scape giving it a sense of magical allure.

So what is Mountain Culture? Hike Korea along with the various academic experts its works with wants to rediscover to the world this nature of respect for mountain vitality that the Koreans have. As Korea slowly begins to regain some form of national identity after a century of colonial occupation, a civil war, national division, and dynamic economic reform, it is slowly starting to re-establish a sense of indigenous identity unique only to the Koreans. Let Hike Korea explain this identity now to our pilgrims.

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