So in case anyone doesn't know... shamanism is actually really popular in a lot of modern places, and not New Age stuff. Mongol peoples, Korea, Japan, and Chinese communities, especially in the Chinese diaspora, have living traditions of shamanism, and it's got amazing art and imagery.
There's a neat article about Korean shamanism here; it's a pretty famous collection of practices that stretches back a long way in Korea and is still popular now. This came up in a thread about the scholar deities so I thought I'd post it here. The largest concentration of shamans in Korea is in ... Seoul! I personally have been to Korean shamans as a client, it's fascinating. Many shamans have day jobs: the woman I saw was a respected professor as well as a professional dancer.
