The Kut and the Korean Mudang
Despite decades of state suppression, including a 1970s government campaign specifically against it, the tradition was later formally recognised and protected as an official cultural heritage — one of the few large living religious traditions anywhere whose ritual officiants are overwhelmingly women.
Laurel Kendall's 1985 ethnographic fieldwork on Korean shamanism; the Saemaul anti-superstition campaigns of the 1970s
A Korean shamanic ritual led overwhelmingly by women, historically taxed and excluded by the state and targeted by later anti-superstition campaigns.