Whether the Korean folk religion in which the mudang plays a central role can be designated as shamanism in the strict sense (Eliade, 1951) is certainly a question which requires continuous study. However, we would not hesitate to classify the mudang's magico-religious system as shamanism and to cautiously call it "Korean shamanism", a specific type of shamanism which we classify as such because the mudang's belief system displays striking similarities with Central Asian and Siberian shamanism (Liu, D.S. 1975; Rhi, B.Y. 1976).