Case file · Folklore / legend
Kim Keum-hwa, the 'national shaman'
Kim Keum-hwa, initiated after a spirit sickness as a teenager, was named holder of the West Coast fishing gut in 1985 and performed for the dead of national tragedies.
1985 CE · 37.46, 126.70 · status: account
The account
Born in Hwanghae Province, she fled south during the war and became the best-known mudang of her time, performing abroad and in the 2013 film Manshin. She died in 2019.